A Tangled Web

IN THE SHORT RUN, WE MAY ALL BE DEAD.



I think this is an interesting take on Blair's fundamental misunderstanding of how one deals with terrorism, by Robin Harris in the DT. He makes the key point;



"Tony Blair has a problem. He trumpets the fact that he has brought Irish republican terrorists to the negotiating table. He even cheekily suggests his success as a model for conciliation in the Middle East. Yet he also has to explain why such tactics cannot succeed in today's war on terror. The answer, like so much else, is borrowed from America: namely, the attack on New York and Washington on 9/11 changed both the nature of terrorism and the proper response to it. He thus asserts that today's terrorism is "qualitatively different from the terrorism we have always lived with. Only Mr Blair could dismiss in such a phrase the bloody scourge of Irish terrorism: and only Labour could applaud him for it."