Twiki speaks

Just been wondering about Tony Blair’s Arc of Extremism speech.

Is it me or did he have a look at George Bush’s Axis of Evil speech and just get out a thesaurus?

Either way, I think it’s pretty harsh on the mathematicians. They get a bad press already what with it being a very dull subject at school. Now they’re having graphs and circles associated with terrorism – that surely can’t help.

I wonder whether Blair passed up other neat phrases – I quite like tangent of terror, though that does sound like a Theme Park ride.

It was nice of Blair to recognise that the world would be a better place if we talked to each other, rather than trying to blow each other to bits. Shame he realised that after he took us into an illegal war with Iraq that has put the chance of World peace back a couple of decades.

What’s scary is that all the things I thought would happen if we went to war have pretty much come true. Increase in extremism, bombings in Britain, more intransigence against the West rather than an increase in democracy and absolutely nothing done about Al Qaeda because all the focus is on Iraq.

What’s even scarier is that if I thought this would happen and I would not qualify myself as an expert on world affairs or the Middle East situation, than how come no-one told Blair this would happen? Or maybe Blair didn’t heed the warnings because his head was too far up George Bush’s bottom to hear…

Was going to write about the Israeli-Lebanon crisis but, I can’t be arsed to honest. It’s like watching a younger brother squabbling with his older brother. (He started it. But there was no need to hit me with a stick. Well I’m going to keep hitting you until you stop. No you stop first. No you etc)

If everyone just grew up, stopped bothering about pride and applied some humility and common sense, then it could get sorted. Sadly, that ain’t going to happen anytime soon.