カテゴリー: Tony Blair
The potential PM’s plan to cut benefits and boost defence spending merely serves her craving for the theatre of conflictWas anything learned? On the first anniversary of Britain’s defeat in Afghanistan there is only silence. The previous defeat in Iraq…
British former PM told Nursultan Nazarbayev to stress he ‘understood’ critics and to say reforms would ‘take time’The newly knighted Sir Tony Blair is one of several well-paid western advisers who have burnished the image of Kazakhstan’s former ruler N…
The US has now spent $8 trillion over 20 years in its response to the attacks. But the true price has been more than financialSuccessive US administrations since 2001 have spent $8tn – that’s to say $8,000bn or $8 million million – on what George Bush,…
Today the media are looking for scapegoats, but 20 years ago they helped facilitate the disastrous interventionEveryone is to blame for the catastrophe in Afghanistan, except the people who started it. Yes, Joe Biden screwed up by rushing out so chaoti…
The former PM has some nerve to say the west should stay on in Afghanistan to protect the ‘gains’ of his 2001 invasionImbecilic, tragic, dangerous and unnecessary are the words used by Tony Blair to describe the US withdrawal from Afghanistan – and Bri…
Former PM attacks ‘dangerous’ withdrawal, saying Islamist groups, Russia and China will benefitThe UK and other countries should “commit for the long term” in places such as Afghanistan, Tony Blair has argued, claiming the chaotic withdrawal would prov…
Former prime minister says jihadist groups will be ‘cheering’ return of the TalibanTony Blair has warned that the return of the Taliban will see “every jihadist group round the world cheering”, as he said that there was now a moral obligation for Weste…
I was one of many who thought, in the wake of 9/11, that “something must be done”. We have learned a bitter lessonHere ends the west’s grotesque delusion that it could use its military might to turn Afghanistan into a stable democracy, a shining path o…