If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck…
Mark Mardell, the BBC’s chief political correspondent has penned a great article, Is Blair a neo-Conservative? in which he compares Blair’s views to those of the neo-cons of the PNAC. Well worth a read, especially for bits like this:
There is one way in which the neo-cons are hugely different to previous nationalists. They insist America’s mission is to bring democracy to the world.
True, they don’t spend their time organising worthy summer schools for opposition politicians in emerging democracies.
I hunt in vain for an earnest neo-con pamphlet debating whether first past the post or proportional representation would be better for a Democratic Iraq.
Europeans and Americans take different stance on UN. Their commitment to democracy is, shall we say, a muscular optimism: states that oppose their values should be “challenged”. Shake the kaleidoscope vigorously enough and a more pleasing pattern will emerge.
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Blair may not really be a neo-con … but you know the old saying “if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck”…
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