barjon
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I'd certainly concede that Blair meant well (as so many people with God on their side do) – and if he'd finished off all state sponsored terrorism for good, the world would be much better place now and he would probably be a hero. But I've always detected a certain desire for greatness and admiration by Blair – after all, don't all "great" politicians have successful wars? – And I suspect this is what he was after.
I think the sad thing about Blair (forget his politics – that's all just a matter of opinion isn't it?) is that he was a very clever man who could carry a nation with him but it didn't in the long run achieve all that much. But that's just my view. How about this counterfactual: if Blair had been Prime Minister during the 1930s and put a stop to Adolf, he actually would have been a great man but without World War II to prove it, we wouldn't have known .............
As always Barjon, a pleasure to hear your views.
He had a terrific strategic vision. For example, he wanted single point of contact between citizens and government instead of people having to deal with individual departments,agencies,quangos etc. This would have involved each department etc being prepared for others to stray into their bailiwicks. Didn't go down well with a lot of them who set about thwarting his plans - I'm somewhat ashamed to have been one of them. Blair thought floating the strategy would be enough. It died because he wasn't much good at forcing things through.