tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33399132.post4933221470557099190..comments2024-03-04T08:09:21.453-08:00Comments on Richard's Real Estate and Urban Economics Blog: A quote from Tony Blair's last day as PMRichard Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02161226214739034402noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33399132.post-56886816024929669842008-10-01T07:44:00.000-07:002008-10-01T07:44:00.000-07:00Politicians with morals are the worst kind.Politicians with morals are the worst kind.otishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12726892402146197207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33399132.post-31607275929936582552008-10-01T06:04:00.000-07:002008-10-01T06:04:00.000-07:00What I am afraid about is that a new bill nearly e...What I am afraid about is that a new bill nearly exactly the same as the old one will just be bloated with goodies to entice enough congressmen to vote for it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33399132.post-19183128163008943502008-10-01T01:39:00.000-07:002008-10-01T01:39:00.000-07:00Well said, Mr Green. One of these days the world i...Well said, Mr Green. One of these days the world is going to turn on its head and be dominated by people with your kind of rationality. (Well, we can but hope!)<BR/><BR/>I too have faith in politicians as people trying to do what they think is right. In complex issues there are going to be many competing opinions. But in the end THEY have to make the decisions. That's why we elect them.<BR/><BR/>As for Tony Blair, well, he was my prime minister, and I thought he was one of the greatest. He is sorely missed by many, though still slated by probably more still.<BR/><BR/>I suppose we won't know whether or not Tony Blair understood the implications of Iraq until he writes his memoirs, even if then. He insists that he believed in it then, and believes in it now.<BR/><BR/>If it was right that regardless of the cost in human lives terrorism and the threat of terrorism had to be taken on and our minds focussed on this, perhaps he will be seen to have been right.<BR/><BR/>It always seemed an odd phrase to me "the war on terror" as it is a war against an invisible and disparate enemy. On the other hand, the alternative is ...? Let these people continue because the enemy is too hard to handle? Let them quietly multiply and subvert future generations?<BR/><BR/>The decision to take terror on, if nothing else, brought to the fore the "values" of the insurgents, and Iranian infiltrators, who kill their own in the full knowledge that many in the west are oh too happy to blame each death on a decision made by the "evil west".<BR/><BR/>Though many people still blast the USA & President Bush for this decision regardless of the fact that the enemy is clearly and proudly out to destroy the rest of us, in time the tide may well turn.<BR/><BR/>And then will Bush & Blair get the thanks they may well deserve?<BR/><BR/>Probably not. <BR/><BR/>I have a blog which I set up in honour of Mr Blair. And this little video puts some of his words together:<BR/><BR/>http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fbwVsgASt7Q<BR/><BR/>This kind of ability to touch something deep inside with words is not commonplace amongst politicians.<BR/><BR/>Some of us miss it enormously.<BR/><BR/>Especially when he was probably right all along.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com