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Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens, a noted atheist, debated whether religion was a force for good, recently. The debate happened in Canada, and the watching public voted against religion . I think when we focus on 'what religion does', we tend to ignore the very wrong that religion is . Most people in the world, even those who defend organized faith, accept that religion can and has done wrong....
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Wikileaks is expected to publish a huge stash of documents within a day or two, this time about the Iraq war . Wikileak's Afghanistan expose had about 75,000 documents, the Iraq expose is expected to have about 400,000. The Afghanistan expose rang, across the world, affecting equations on the subcontinent and jolting the American intelligence establishment. Though admittedly, the ally-equation be...
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One could understand it when David Cameron casting himself increasingly as "Blair's Heir" in 2007. Tony Blair was Prime Minister then, though a Labour Prime Minister, and David Cameron was attempting to entrench himself as Tory leader. One could even understand Gordon Brown invoking Margaret Thatcher in 2007, after becoming Prime Minister. He wanted to portray himself as a tough man, in nobody's...
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Tony Blair has today defended the invasion of Iraq while speaking with Newsweek . He proposed an interesting thought. When asked whether the Iraq war had prevented nukes from falling into the hands of terrorists, he replied that it will take a generation to knock extremism out. Wishful thinking of the highest order. One assumes that the highest priority for the US & the UK right now is fixing the...
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The British press has been singing to blazes over Tony Blair's memoir, 'A Journey', which came out yesterday. He hated Brown. Brown hated him. He does not regret taking the UK into the Iraq war. Does regret the fox hunting ban (Of all things). He was attracted to royalty. He was manipulated, and he in turn manipulated, royalty. He favors we continue New Labour. There are hints about him preferrin...
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