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Interesting material on just how far Tony Blair has gone!!
David
<< Subj: Blair under fire over adviser's call for 'imperialism'
Date: 3/29/02 2:42:20 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Viviane Lerner)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David McReynolds)
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rad Times), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peace Movt Aotearoa),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (KBOO), [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([Global News])
>>"What is needed is a new kind of imperialism, one acceptable to
a world of human rights and cosmopolitan values. We can already
discern its outline: an imperialism which, like all imperialism,
aims to bring order and organisation but which rests today on the
voluntary principle."<<
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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=279253
Blair under fire over adviser's call for 'imperialism'
By Paul Waugh Deputy Political Editor
28 March 2002
Senior Labour MPs reacted with fury last night after Tony Blair's
key foreign policy adviser called for "a new kind of imperialism"
to enable the UK to intervene abroad to combat global terror
threats.
In a move that will further unnerve backbenchers worried about
possible military action against Iraq, Robert Cooper said that it
was the task of liberal democracies to "bring order" to the rest
of the world.
Writing in a new pamphlet on the long-term implications of 11
September, Mr Cooper, a senior Foreign Office diplomat attached to
Downing Street, said: "The need for colonisation is as great as it
ever was in the 19th century".
A diplomat appointed personally by Mr Blair to represent the UK at
the Bonn conference on Afghanistan's future last year, Mr Cooper's
views on global threats have heavily influenced the Prime Minister
since the terror attacks.
The mandarin has long argued that indifference to international
crime and terrorism is no longer an option for the West and is a
firm believer that the European Union should do more to effect
change overseas. However, Mr Cooper's provocative comments, made
in a new pamphlet published by the Foreign Policy Centre,
triggered outrage among Labour MPs last night.
Mr Blair faced further warnings against action on Iraq when Romano
Prodi, the European Commission President, said that "escalation of
conflict would have terrible consequences everywhere".
In Reordering the World, a pamphlet which has a foreword by Mr
Blair, Mr Cooper said that Osama bin Laden had proved the dangers
of allowing rogue states to continue unchecked.
"All the conditions for imperialism are there ... the weak still
need the strong and the strong still need an orderly world. A
world in which the efficient and well-governed export stability
and liberty.
"Empire and imperialism are words that have become terms of abuse
in the post-modern world. Today, there are no colonial powers
willing to take on the job, though the opportunities, perhaps even
the need, for colonisation is as great as it ever was in the 19th
century.
"What is needed is a new kind of imperialism, one acceptable to a
world of human rights and cosmopolitan values. We can already
discern its outline: an imperialism which, like all imperialism,
aims to bring order and organisation but which rests today on the
voluntary principle."
Mr Cooper said that if terrorists or criminals based in
undemocratic states posed a threat, the West had to act. "If they
become too dangerous for established states to tolerate, it is
possible to imagine a defensive imperialism," he said. He added
that the EU could offer the best form of the new imperialism. "The
post-modern EU offers a vision of co-operative empire. Like Rome,
this commonwealth would provide its citizens with some of its
laws, some coins and the occasional road. That perhaps is the
vision," he said.
Tam Dalyell, the MP for Linlithgow who is leading the backbench
opposition on Iraq, said Mr Cooper's comments ran against the
Labour Party's long history of anti-colonialism.
"The Tsarina of Russia was better advised by Rasputin than the
Prime Minister is by this maniac. To claim that the need for
colonialism may be as great as in Victorian times is
extraordinary," he said.
Alan Simpson, Labour MP for Nottingham South, said that it was
clear that Mr Cooper was attempting to offer some intellectual
justification for the US and UK bypassing the United Nations.
"The very idea of a 'liberal imperialism' is like an 'enlightened
slavery' � it just doesn't make any sense. The great tragedy of
this analysis is that it totally ignores the UN. It is thinking
down the barrel of a gun," Mr Simpson said.
The number of Labour MPs who have signed up to a Commons motion
objecting to an attack on Iraq rose yesterday to 121 after the
suggestion by the Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon, that Britain
would not need a special UN resolution for such an assault on the
country.
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