Humphreys v Blair
Tony Blair on the Today programme this morning defended his record on Iraq -- and refused to use the word "inconceivable" in respect of military action in Iran. Though he offered John Humphreys with these carefully chosen words:
Sitting here now, talking to you ... there is, as far as I know, no planning going on [in the White House] to make an attack on Iran.
Which rather assumes that the Bush administration shares that kind of strategic information with Tony Blair, right?
Comments
Technically Blair is probaby right, the plan of attack against Iran is being prepared at the Pentagon not the White House. There should be no doubt that America will in its own good time eliminate the threat of Iran and it now appears (always did to me) that military force is the only method that will work. What the consequences to the US and the rest of the world will be is anyone's guess. As the US government sees it, the consequences of allowing Iran to own nuclear weapons would be far worse. Besides, if America doesn't do it, Israel will and its only option is for a massive nuclear attack, the worst possible scenario in this world. Will Britain be involved? Can't say. Perhaps Bush will let him give the order to fire off a missile or two just so he can say Britain is again part of the coalition of the willing and still has that "special relationship." Don't look for massive ground forces on this one, not unless the Iranian government is foolish enough to give the order for its forces to invade Iraq. That could spell the end of Iran as a nation.