{"id":3472,"date":"2006-09-14T14:50:32","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T21:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2006-09-14T15:15:48","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T22:15:48","slug":"jimmy-carter-wishes-tony-blair-would-grow-a-spine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3472","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Carter Wishes Tony Blair Would Grow A Spine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by Winter Patriot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

According to a report from the BBC<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Ex-US President Jimmy Carter has said he is “disappointed” by the apparently subservient attitude of the British government towards the White House.<\/p>\n

Mr Carter said Tony Blair was a good man, but could have used his influence with President Bush more wisely.<\/p>\n

The 81-year-old said there had once been “a very strong voice from London in the shaping of a common policy”.<\/p><\/div>\n

Quite correct! Once there was a very<\/em> strong voice from London … but not anymore! <\/p>\n

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Earlier this week, the prime minister hit out at the “anti-American feeling” of some European politicians, describing it as “madness”.<\/p>\n

“The reality is that none of the problems that press in on us can be resolved or even contemplated without them [the United States],” he wrote in a pamphlet published by the Foreign Policy Centre.<\/p><\/div>\n

Blair had more to say about the “madness” which seems to have infected a huge portion of Europe, and you can read more about it in this BBC report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The BBC’s report on Jimmy Carter’s comments<\/a> continues:<\/p>\n

But Mr Carter told Newsnight: “I have been really disappointed in the apparent subservience of the British government’s policies related to many of the serious mistakes that have been originated in Washington.”<\/p>\n

Mr Carter, an opponent of the US-led war in Iraq, added: “No matter what kind of radical or ill-advised policy was proposed from the White House, it seems to me that almost automatically the government of Great Britain would adopt the same policy without exerting its influence.<\/p>\n

This was the case “in the Middle East peace process, in the case of the Lebanese\/Israeli war in the recent past and certainly in the ill-advised abandonment of the war against terrorism to substitute the war in Iraq”, he said.<\/p>\n

Asked if he thought Britain was exerting its influence behind the scenes, Jimmy Carter replied he had seen no evidence of that.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t seen the corrective effect of British disagreement with what the White House has proposed. It may be there, it hasn’t been evident to the public,” he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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