Blair reinvented the Middle Ages and called it liberal intervention
Tony Blair’s final gesture as world statesman should be to boycott this week’s G8 summit in Germany and invite his friend George Bush to do the same. These flatulent jamborees began as “library chats” of rich white western leaders with no staff present. They are now a diplomatist’s Olympic Games, to see who can spend the most, strut the best (Silvio Berlusconi’s masseurs and Blair’s rock concerts) and make the emptiest promises.
Two years ago the Gleneagles “awareness raising summit” cost £10m per delegate and pledged soaring aid to world poverty, as did the United Nations’ previous millennium conference on the same subject, which reportedly drained New York of champagne and caviar.… Seguir leyendo »