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Tony Blair: The “Right” Kind of Liberal
Oh, Tony, how we will miss thee.
In today’s WaPo, Michael Gerson, who was with Blair when London was attacked in 2005, spent some time with Blair when he visited Washington this week.
On the defeatist rhetoric of the anti-war Left, Gerson quotes Blair:
“The reason why the stance of a lot of public opinion is quite defeatist in my view is because we are still saying, ‘Well, they’ve got a point, we understand their grievance, maybe it is our fault.’ . . . We get rid of two of the most brutal and terrible dictatorships, who’ve killed hundreds of thousands of their people, we then say you can have a United Nations-backed process of democracy — and you say that provoked them to terrorism. I mean, explain that one for me.”
At times of great peril, the Brits have a knack for producing clear-eyed leaders who can perceive the true threat. Think Churchill. Think Thatcher. And, now, think Blair.
Oh, Tony, we will miss thee.