The statement by Mr. Myers a senior analyst with the State Department’s Bureau of Analysis and Research that Tony Blair got ‘nothing, no payback’ for supporting President George W Bush in Iraq, might have given that gut feeling to Mr. Blair.
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‘Unfortunately, Tony Blair’s background was as an actor and not an historian. If only he’d read a book on the 1920s he might have hesitated.’
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Iraq became a nation state in 1920 after being carved out by the French and British from the remains of the Ottoman empire. It turned out to be a bloody affair that Churchill referred to as the ‘Mesopotamian entanglement’.
The lecture put by Mr. Myers in Washington at the School of Advanced International Studies, part of Johns Hopkins University, entitled: ‘How special is the United States-United Kingdom relationship after Iraq?’ paints a different picture to that of Blair and Bush relationship unlike the whole world knows it.
Blair and the Labour party come out of this lecture very badly and yet Cameron and the Conservatives come off fairly well, it will be unforgiving reading in the Downing street today. However, Brown can be considered an incompetent politician who lacks that instinct to go for the kill at the right time, he has had chances to depose Blair but has never taken them, and Mr. Myers was right to mention Mr. Cameron’s speech in the lecture that Britain must be “not slavish in how we approach the special relationship’.
‘The views expressed by Mr. Myers in no way represent the views of the United States government,’ it is what the state department has to say over Mr. Myer’s lecture, it still makes Blair look like a fool when Mr. Myers is one of their senior analysts.
Via: Telegraph
