By what right does Blair speak for 'the West'?

Question

Breakfast TV. Blair continues to support the USA Government, saying that 'the West' must protect itself from the monster in the Kremlin. What right has the USA to set up their Star Wars shield in EU countries? I'm a bit hazy about the Bay of Pigs crisis, but the efforts of the current resident of the White House to jump jack the Cold War should be blocked by all EU member states. We're in the first line of fire.

Answer 1

Blair doesn`t speak for Europe,just the UK,his self elevating self importance is demeaning to the other member states suggesting he is the self imposed caretaker of Europe's foreign policy,

Answer 2

It's just his opinion.

Bush doesn't speak for me or in fact for most Americans - I think that they are all very detached from reality. Hopefully the cold war resurgence is not inevitable, but even without all this posturing, Russia is a very unstable place politically. One could almost make the case that they will restart hostilities if only to make their (the US and Russia's) lives easier in the political arena.

I doubt that EU countries will be attacked in the end. If it comes to a head like that the whole world is going to be reduced to rubble anyhow. Do you honestly think that WW3 will leave anyone standing? And isn't the star wars shield a failure from the Regan era? Bush seems to want to bring up every failure of past Republican policy just to watch it fail again and create destruction.

It is a bit complicated as the truth of these situations never comes to light until years later, and the fact that most of the major EU nations have been dependent on the US military for years. You hate us, but you still want to use us as a shield it seems. It is somewhat similar to the Bay of Pigs/Cuban missile crisis, you should read up on that, or rent the film Thirteen Days which covers that period. It's from the book of the same name by Philip Zelikow.

Frankly I think it is misguided to place missiles there. There is no point.

Hard to tell whats going to happen, I hope the situation gets defused. I cannot wait until Bush is out of office. Look at what he has done to the US and the world in only 6 years.

And Quas, you are a singular beacon of hatred - so glad that the slaughter of 3,000 people... men, women, children and the handicapped ...from all over the world at the world trade center made you happy. I guess they all had it coming because of where they were born and where they worked. Learned our lesson? Please try with your feeble mind to separate political policy from civillians.

Answer 3

If you think how much we spend on defence for this country, I'm very happy for the USA to protect us ............ how can you protect a country with only 18 billion pounds a YEAR. They spent 1 billion trying to get kids not to bunk off school and that didn't work. Money would have been better spent on defence. The lastest Russia problem just shows it's never good to lower defence's as you never know when the next attack will happen or where from.

Please rise spending on defence and stop wasting cash on silly projects that no cares about. The billion pounds could have housed the homeless of London for a while.

Tony Blair and his rubbish house of merry men.

Answer 4

I'm a little confused by your question. Are you asking what right Blair has, or what right the yanks have, as you paraphrase in your question?

Bush has been speaking with the leaders of various countries for years about their so-called "star wars shield" program, even trying to implement one in Australia, because it would increase the american dominance in the western world.
Really, it only supports the move to widen the gap between eastern and western countries of the world, and provide more reason for war.

It is true that america is the first who will be fired on, and truthfully, those who follow my answers about what I think of the country, will not be surprised to hear me say that I will not shed any tears when they are attacked. The fact they didn't learn from the Towers attack and got more arrogant simply makes me think that a larger scale attack is in the planning stage.

Answer 5

By "the West" I think he means NATO. In this instance I agree with him, unusual as that is. Despite some improvements in relations neither China nor Russia are particularly friendly, Pakistan's General Musharraf (a nuclear power) could be overthrown by fanatics and Iran could obtain a nuclear arsenal. The first care of any government is the security of it's people and on that basis I have no problem with a DEFENSIVE air to air missile capability in Europe.

Answer 6

Blair is a dullisional moron drunk on power just like the rest of these people in authority they have no consideration for public opinoin and this form of democracy we live in might as well be dictatorship because they do what they want and have no regard for public opinion they pull out these so called experts and we should fall inline with what they say or we are idiots

Answer 7

Why not isn't England is part of the FREE world ? I think so and by the way those shields would be there to protect you as well, and speaking of being on the front line, it was the same in WW-1 and WW-2 but I don't recall any complaints about us being there then {part of a FREE world}

Answer 8

self appointed US creep.

how much better we would be without him and bush in power.

Answer 9

His right is the right we all have: free speech.