Unquestionably Panglossian
Matthew Jamieson, who we discovered when he declared that "Britain is unquestionably the world's second strongest power" on the basis of reading it in an article by the Heritage Foundation, has a new article giving advice to Margaret Beckett.His super-confience in both Blair and Britain remain. It's good news that Straw has gone - and it shows Blair in command:
By ruling out armed intervention as ‘inconceivable’ and ‘nuts’, he built a box for himself and the Foreign Office which limited Britain’s room for manoeuvre on this critical threat. The Prime Minister has demolished that box with Mr. Straw’s removal as Foreign Secretary, re-asserting his control over foreign policy and eradicating an irregularity in the American and European approach towards Tehran. Mrs
None of that free-thinking from Margaret Beckett, sorry, 'The scandal free, ultra competent Mrs. Beckett', he's pleased to say:
Mrs. Beckett, true to her record, will be a loyal and faithful advocate of New Labour’s foreign policy doctrine.
Well moving on, the good news is that the world's second most powerful nation - unquestionably - is in the ascendency once again.
With a weakened Bush administration, handicapped by low Presidential and Vice-Presidential approval ratings, a France debilitated by internal stagnation, Britain stands among the five permeant UN Security Council powers as the most robust political democracy.
Those low President and Veep ratings, eh? Anyway, Blair's own difficulties are just a 'parochial Westminster intrigue', you'll be pleased to know.
The rest is pretty boiler-plate Decency, though it looks like whilst we Decency watchers were all obsessed with Iran we failed to see the rise of Russia, as it's 'simply a glorified gas station'.
posted by Matthew @ 5/19/2006 03:38:00 PM
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