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November 22, 2006
Glick: After the Muses Fall Silent
Caroline Glick reflects on Tony Blairs extraordinary appeasement campaign, and in the Media's evern more extraordinary reaction: After the Muses Fall Silent
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has gone on an appeasement spree and no one seems to mind. On Friday, Blair gave a marquis interview to Al-Jazeera's new psychological warfare platform -- its English-language channel -- to celebrate its launch.It is unclear whether Blair meant to give the impression in that interview that he agreed with Al-Jazeera's Man-about-Town-in-Britain David Frost's assertion that the US-British war in Iraq is "pretty much a disaster." But Blair has made unmistakably clear that what he is suing for now is an ignominious American-British retreat from Iraq.
In his recent statements and actions, Blair has been unambiguous in communicating his belief that peace in Iraq begins with Israeli surrender to the Palestinians, Hizbullah and Syria. Blair sees in suicidal Israeli retreats from the Golan Heights, Judea and Samaria the key to unlocking the hearts of the mullahs in Teheran and the Ba'athists in Damascus. As Blair sees it, these enemies of Israel, the US, Britain and the entire Free World will suddenly become reliable friends of the non-Jewish West if Israel is left at their tender mercies. As friends, Iran and Syria will allow the US and Britain to surrender Iraq with their heads held high as they hand global jihadists their greatest victory since the Soviet retreat from Afghanistan.[...]
As I've said before, when your only plan for victory consists of "winning the hearts and minds" of the enemy, you will end up doing some pretty immoral things in the pursue of "victory"--such as betraying your friends.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at November 22, 2006 12:31 PM
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