US Right turns on Blair for being 'soft on terror'

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US Right turns on Blair for being 'soft on terror'
By Alec Russell in Washington
(Filed: 25/07/2005)

The American Right, for four years a fount of rapturous praise for Tony Blair, is showing signs of falling out of love with Britain over what it sees as its soft and ineffective record on terrorism.



The July 7 bombings prompted outpourings of sympathy from Americans. But the media coverage of the bombings was marked by a tone of frustration at London's record of tolerance for Islamist preachers. This has intensified on the Right in the wake of Thursday's botched attacks.

Two prominent articles in the latest edition of The Weekly Standard, the neo-conservative journal with close ties to the Bush administration, have laid into Britain's domestic approach to fighting terrorism.

Under the headline "Letter from Londonistan" Irwin Stelzer concludes that British policy amounts to "easy entry for potential terrorists" and "relative safety from deportation and detention as enemy combatants".

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[Puzzler]

1. Maybe...

The Weekly Standard would like the British police to shoot a few more people?

-P

[Benbow]

6. Repugs want the Brits to shoot a few more South Americans, it would appear

No, wait, "execute" is the (inappropriate) preferred verb here, isn't it.

[whistle]

2. I guess Bush feels that the killing of innocent suspects is good...

...anti-terrorist policy. By accelerating these types of killings, eventually they'll hit a real terrorist and it will be worth in. In Iraq, Bush doesn't even bother to count who the U.S. has killed, they just keep up the pace, knowing that some time in the future they'll get most of the terrorists. If they manage to exterminate all of the remaining Iraqis (22.3 million), well anyone who is left who are not U.S. or coalition related, are terrorists so by this process of narrowing down the targets, Bush knows he'll eventually get them all.

All Bush wants to see is that Tony Blair follows this same train of thought.

[skids]

3. Utter hypocrasy.

The country with some of the most porous borders and docks in the world says what?

[unhappycamper]

4. bu$hCo is pissed because poodle-boy didn't try to whip the Brits into a

frenzy.

[MN ChimpH8R]

5. Ding Ding Ding

Blair conducted himself with a reasonable amount of dignity and didn't openly try to whip up the mob mentality. Unlike ChimpCo.