WakeUpFromYourSlumber
After the apparent contradiction of inviting Iran and Syria to help the US and UK out of their quagmire in Iraq [while] at the same time threatening them, Blair finally laid the cards on the table with a clear indication of whom we have been fighting this war for all along.
This is what he said when describing the government of Iran as a strategic threat:
"They seek to pin us back in Lebanon, in Iraq and in Palestine. Our response should be to expose what they are doing, build the alliances to prevent it and pin them back across the whole of the region."
Now we all know that the British have troops in Iraq and that the prime minister must try to safeguard their interests, however impossible a task this seems to become.
But that the British are fighting a war in Lebanon and Palestine is definitely news.
Hence, when Blair talks about "us" being pinned back in the Lebanon and in Palestine, he can only mean the Israelis, and thus for the first time has admitted that British foreign policy is shaped for their benefit. More...
