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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject9/21/2001 9:17:33 AM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Hi all; Tory praise for Blair in Great Britain:

Blair strikes the right balance
Julian Glover, UK Guardian Unlimited, September 21, 2001
Tony Blair has looked very impressive during this crisis, especially compared to his US counterpart, writes Julian Glover
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This performance has won him support from some dubious corners, not least the Sun and the Tory leader, Iain Duncan Smith. Today the paper's speak-as-I-find columnist Richard Littlejohn hails him for "playing a blinder".

For many of us praise for anyone by Mr Littlejohn provides grounds to run rapidly in the opposite direction. Perhaps not this time. So far, Mr Blair has played a cunning game, keeping the US engaged in a world response to the attacks, helping put a cap on Europe's latent anti-Americanism and reassuring the British public. He has avoided panic gestures and he spoke without malice in the Commons.

If some sort of real war comes and Mr Blair leads Britain in while Europe holds back, the judgment on his performance may be clouded - and a judgment against him would be confirmed if the war went badly. But as yet none of this has happened.

A week after the attacks not a single bullet has been fired in retaliation - a better record than former US president Bill Clinton could boast when he bombed Sudan after attacks on US embassies in Africa. And if this world crisis achieves a sane resolution, the prime minister will certainly be able to say he played more than a walk-on part.
politics.guardian.co.uk

-- Carl
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