Former MI6 chief says Britain was 'dragged' into Iraq war

[Jan Klimkowski]

Nigel Inkster, who sounds like a terrifically cheesed off at being passed over mandarin clone of Sir Humphrey from the Yes Minister comedy sitcom, is talking amoral tosh.

Inkster opines:

"The Foreign Office no longer does foreign policy," Mr Inkster said. "It acts as a platform for a multiplicity of UK departments and the lack of a clearly articulated sense of our strategic location in the world explains how we got dragged into a war with Iraq which was always against our better judgment."

WRONG. Tony Blair effectively abandoned cabinet government for a foreign policy determined unilaterally by himself. A clear example was when, in 2006, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw muttered something along the lines that war with Iran was inconceivable. Blair immediately replaced him with a test crash dummy named Margaret Beckett. Gotta remind the talking mannequins that independent thought is not allowed.....

The New Labour propaganda machine's putdown for anyone offering a smidgin of independent thought is to state that they've gone "off message". :thefinger:

Blair had a very "clearly articulated sense of (Britain's) strategic location in the world": his vision was America right or wrong. Which is why he shamed Britain by doing pretty much whatever the nutcase neocons of the Bush regime wanted.

Inkster's version of how we got into the Iraq War is just so much guff.

In his speech, he also criticised the current mission to Afghanistan, saying Britain has been attempting to implement an agenda that is "ludicrously at variants with the resources allocated to that task."

Professor Paul Collier of Oxford University, who has advised the government on failing states, said there had been a "massive mistake" in Afghanistan where Britain had believed there could be a "magical flip from the middle ages to Scandanavia in one go."

Mr Inkster said the world was moving from "being policed by America to be policed by nobody" and the danger of an increasingly unstable world meant populations were likely to fall back on the "snake oil and voodoo" of religious and nationalistic movements.

Borderline racist tosh from Inkster - the mandarin who seems oh so proud of his intellectual and cultural superiority.

I'm reminded of the quote in Magda's signature:

"I think it would be a good idea." Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization.

Finally, Inkster claims:

When it came to the conflict between Russia and Georgia last summer, he added, Britain was caught "completely flat footed" and used a strategy that "amounted to little more than moral indignation, which is not a strategy."

NATO & the neocons conducted a hamfisted destablization operation in Georgia and got their ass handed to them by Putin. The blame for the fiasco lies with western intelligence and wannabe machiavellian western politicians.

The line dissing morality made me guffaw. Amorality is a sine qua non for the deep black operators.

Meanwhile, Nigel has clearly already made plans for Nigel - a sinecure at the spooky thinktank, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, whose raison d'etre is to be a:

primary source of accurate, objective information on international strategic issues for politicians and diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business, economists, the military, defence commentators, journalists, academics and the informed public. The Institute owes no allegiance to any government, or to any political or other organisation.

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