The Tony Blair decade
Christian Science Monitor
by Gerard DeGroot
05/09/07
Last Friday morning, Britain awoke to the devastation of war. The destruction came not in villages leveled and lives destroyed, but in the annihilation of a political party. Though Labour still retains control of Parliament, Tony Blair’s party was reduced to a smoking ruin in nationwide council elections. It’s a sorry end for Mr. Blair, who says he’s ready to step down after a decade as prime minister. The man who re-invented the socialist Labour Party into a modern, third-way political dynamo now sees the Iraq war dismantling one of the most formidable political machines in British history. When anger fades and regret settles in, historians will judge the Iraq war a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0509/p09s02-coop.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Gerard DeGroot
05/09/07
Last Friday morning, Britain awoke to the devastation of war. The destruction came not in villages leveled and lives destroyed, but in the annihilation of a political party. Though Labour still retains control of Parliament, Tony Blair’s party was reduced to a smoking ruin in nationwide council elections. It’s a sorry end for Mr. Blair, who says he’s ready to step down after a decade as prime minister. The man who re-invented the socialist Labour Party into a modern, third-way political dynamo now sees the Iraq war dismantling one of the most formidable political machines in British history. When anger fades and regret settles in, historians will judge the Iraq war a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0509/p09s02-coop.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 10. Mai, 15:23
