While grouting tiles in the kitchen this afternoon I've been meditating on
Blair's new predicament. If there's another Al Qaeda attack in London
anytime soon then questions will certainly be raised on the International
Olympics Committee. If there's another one after this within the next two
years -- when there's time to choose another -- then it's certain that that
the IOC will choose another venue for the 2012 Games.
Losing the Olympic Games would make Tony Blair even more unpopular in this
country than he is already for supporting Bush. I think the London attack
is now a double whammy for Blair. I think that he was probably going to
withdraw British troops from Iraq sometime next year. I think he'll have to
do so earlier than that now. It will be no guarantee that London won't be
attacked again but withdrawing troops would be as near as you can get by
way of an insurance policy.
Perhaps this explains why Bush, if anything, seemed a great deal more
worried than Blair at the G8 Conference. If our troops leave soon then his
hand will be forced even more than the growing tide of American public
opinion to end the occupation.
Keith Hudson
Keith Hudson, Bath, England, <www.evolutionary-economics.org>
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