Exactly, and also exactly the capability that Blair does not have.
As for "knows what its like to have blood on his hands", Blair has gained about as much knowledge of that as I have from playing RTS war games. He has ordered men to their deaths, but has he ever taken the time to look honestly and unflinchingly at what he wrought? You and I might agree that Blair has blood on his hands - I very much doubt that he does. And rest assured, he firmly believes he is right.
An ability to lie is definitely a negative trait if it is used to extensively lie to oneself.
And it's a pattern. While Saint Tony has been the Extra Secret Super Special Hot Sauce Quartet Envoy to the Middle East, the Gaza situation has devolved into naked barbarism and atrocity, and Israel is - still - seriously considering an attack on Iran.
Does Europe want someone so likely to destroy the EU?
That common knowledge undermines rather than strengthens his capacities for bringing people together ... setting aside the leap in the dark regarding believing that he has changed his ways and will be trying to bring people together.
After specifying that he is an able liar, we are supposed to believe that he has reversed his modus operandi by 180 degrees on his say so?
Indeed, even if he seriously intends and is 100% committed to changing his modus operandi ... he is entirely untested in that role.
Its like picking someone for the starting XI in the Ashes because he's the star pitcher for the Olympic Baseball team.
Better pick someone who has some runs on the board for that particular contest. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
he knows hot to dissimulate and knows what its like to have blood on his hands, I suggest that those are possibly positive traits rather than negatives.
thanks for sharing, that's some belief system you've got going there, lol! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Not my belief system. But I'm not getting anywhere on this thread but knee-jerk reactions to presumed ideas rather than what is actually said,
i don't think you're convincing anyone here of your points of view, but you have a lot of knowledge and time to share it, helping to provide some interesting counter-arguments, thickening the mix, as it were, and certainly helping avoid any notion ET is a cosy corner of choral communion.
to me the fault line occurs when you say things are true, but you don't necessarily believe them, which is like trying to reverse engineer glenn beck's brain.
(he thinks it's important to believe in something even though it's wrong, hmmm, you could say these two approaches are halves of a whole.)
because everyone else in this discussion, it appears to me, (and everywhere else at this blog for that matter, is intent on sharing things because we believe them to be true.)
by the way, i do have a life, thanks.
although you will get the the occasional 4 by throwing insulting comments my way, i'm guessing that's not really why you're here, lol.
enjoy your stay, and thanks for helping to catalise the discussion through your comments here why it is we have such a strong desire not to see Tony Blair get any more rewarded for his actions than he is already.
ansi...
ciao ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
