Schlack: You’re Irish and so are connected with and love the English (sorry) so what is your take on the Bush-Blair alliance? Was this just an attempt to regain a smidgen of the glory days of The Raj or was there more to it?
i dont know, the brits are trying to keep one foot in europe and one foot in "the special relationship" with the US.
i dont really know, ive read so much, heard so many interviews and commentators and still havent figured that one out.
there seemed to be nothing in it for british oil companies - or any british interests in general, they were apparently twiddled about as much as the american people, George Bush saying one thing when meeting and then doing another in practice.
there seemed to be so little in it for britain i can only guess that he had some kind of brain fart. i think may have Blair developed something of a messiah complex.
he also wanted to stand solidly with the US after 9/11 whatever they did, perhaps be a junior partner in the new empire. dont forget than a million people marched in london feb 15th 2003 against the war - and unprecedented protest that was ignored. even the british government couldnt have believed the bullcrap that they themselves issued as evidence.
blinded by Bush perhaps, sucked in by the "lets do some good" rhetoric.
i have read that in return GWB promised concessions on global warming/poverty (i cant rememebr which one) which were never fulfilled. so perhaps like so many in the us he was sucked by the false promises.
on the other hand he has now got a job as a de facto member of the bush administration - as get this - middle east peace envoy - man do they have an ironic sense of humour. perhaps we always was a loyal bushie too.
