Reply #103: Then Blair should have told the British people the truth

[Jack Rabbit]

He didn't.

I'm sorry, but I cannot accept this fantastic worldview you have in which Blair, contrary to all appearances, is like the boy with his finger in the dike hold back the floodwaters of neoconservative domination.

We are agreed that neoconservatism must be fought and that it probably cannot be taken on with direct brute force. The leaves resistence by non-cooperation. If Blair's intention is to resist by deception and subterfuge, then he has decieved his own people as much as anybody and the overall effect has not been worth the effort.

I've been comparing Blair to Chamberlain, which is how I see it. Looking at it from your point of view, he seems to compare more to Marshall Petain. Petain, after all, thought he was stopping the Nazis from going any further. He still asked "How high?" everytime the Germans said "Jump!" History has not been kind to him and he was tried for treason after the war. I don't think history will be much more kind to Tony Blair.