I am referring, of course, to none other than the unindicted war criminal Tony Blair, former PM of Great Britain. I know he is supposed to be advising Mahmoud Abbas on something or other (like how to be a more effective liar?) but we haven’t heard from him in a while. That is so unlike Toady who seeks publicity the way Pooh craves honey. It’s not that I miss him. Lord, it is so nice to read a newspaper or watch the BBC without any mention of this rogue. It’s as if a lengthy and persistent bout of severe nausea has ended.
Actually, I must correct myself. I did read about him in the Independent the other day. Apparently he was shocked by the conditions in which Palestinians lived. Shocked, I tell you. Rubbish. The only thing that would shock Tony Blair is to learn how totally irrelevant he has become. Maybe that is why Russia didn’t obstruct the decision to appoint Blair as Middle Eastern envoy. Sending this menace to tutor the equally irrelevant Abbas was probably the best way to marginalize Toady. Unlike the idiots in DC and Whitehall, Vladimir Putin understood the outcome of the last Palestinian elections and quickly grasped that Hamas is the true representative power in the occupied territories. No lasting peace deal can be done without them. How typical of our approach to the Middle East. Russia talks to the people who matter while we send our high-profile failures to train Palestinian parrots to squawk democratic clichés and kow-tow to Israel. Today Russia is the true home of diplomacy, not America or England.
Sooner or later, though, Toady (and his wife) will tire of the anonymity and the lack of influence at which point he will look for some sort of dignified exit. Apparently the dwarf Sarkozy would be happy to seem him as President of Europe but I think that is pie-dans-le-sky. I am still betting he will try to grab the NATO Secretary General position. You have been warned.
