The British Empire mentality hasn't gone away

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday January 09, 2003 13:49 by depp

Are the British government just following US policy blindly? Do they have any schemes of their own? Of course they do....

Are the British government just following US policy blindly? Do they have any schemes of their own? Of course they do....

Quote from The Guardian, 9/1/03;
‘The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, will today make his strongest attempt yet to woo Muslim opinion for a war against Iraq during a visit to Indonesia, the most populous Muslim state in the world.
Mr Straw ……….. will plead that neither the confrontation with Iraq nor the war on terrorism should be seen as the west against Islam.
He will say: "The divide in the modern world is not the so-called 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and the west. The divide is between order and chaos."(end quote)

Order v. chaos. What does he mean?

Maybe the following will explain; (quote from Tony Blair's foreign policy guru Robert Cooper April 2002);
‘In the Ancient world, order meant empire. Those within the empire had order, culture and civilisation. Outside it lay barbarians, chaos and disorder.’

And how does Cooper ‘deal with’ this ‘chaos’?

‘But, when dealing with old-fashioned states outside the postmodern continent of Europe, we need to revert to the rougher methods of an earlier era - force, pre-emptive attack, deception, whatever is necessary….’

‘The most logical way to deal with chaos ………….is colonisation.’

So, there we have it, British government policy is to colonise by force.