Posted by
flagwaver on Sunday, July 08, 2007 11:40:09 PM
Tony Blair sure picked a fine time to leave us! We are embroiled in a war that we will be fighting for God knows how long against an enemy that is implacable, and totally bent on our destruction. We have other allies in the war against Islamic terror, but none has borne as much of the cost, or been stauncher in their support than the British.
When we decided that it was necessary to invade Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power, even without the approval of the ever vigilant United Nations, it was the British who were with us from the start. It was Tony Blair who committed his nation to the fight, knowing that it would be as Donald Rumsfeld said: A long, hard slog. He came to the fight because he saw the enemy for what it is, and he knew that this enemy could no longer be ignored but had to be confronted and defeated. He saw evil and instead of allowing it to slowly creep over the land, joined our fight to push it back and wipe it out.
New Prime Minister Gordon Brown scares me, quite frankly. I am concerned that he is more of the politically correct European that Prime Minister Blair, and that his PC bent will affect his commitment to defeating the jihadists. And I believe that my concern is a valid one.
Take his actions in response to the terrorist attack and plot in Great Britain as an example. One of the first things Prime Minister Brown did in response to the terrorist action in Glasgow was to ban his ministers from using “Muslim” in connection to terrorism, in a sop to the self esteem of Great Britain’s burgeoning Muslim population. When your first concern is not necessarily dealing with the actual terrorist act or plot, but to tend to the tender feelings of the very community that launched the attack there is cause for concern about Brit resolve in this war.
Further, Mr. Brown has decided to drop the phrase “war on terror” from the vernacular of the British government. While “war on terror” is a phrase that could have been worked on some time ago, I doubt that Mr. Brown is doing this to come up with a better phrase. I think that this changing terminology may be a sign that he is not nearly as committed to winning the war against the jihadis as Mr. Blair was; it just seems to me that Brown is more under the sway of the European community and thought processes than Blair ever was. And if Brown is a dyed in the wool European, the question is not if he will declare victory and go home but when that time will come.
Maybe I am wrong about Mr. Brown, and for once I hope I am. For all of our sakes, I pray that I have misread the situation. Because if I’m right, we will find ourselves in a position that the Democrats and the world community have long maintained that we placed ourselves in.
Going it alone.