It IS the foreign policy stupid!

My apologies for the lack of updates, but as I said unlike other bloggers I can't guarantee that I'll be able to keep up to publishing a daily post! And anyway, like all good things its best to be patient and to wait for them to arrive!

Right, back to business... I'm writing this post, because frankly I'm utterly bemused at the brazen manner in which Blair's government dismissed the open letter written by representatives of the Muslim community. As a Muslim myself and from speaking to many friends who are also Muslim, each and every single one of us certainly believes that the unbalanced approach (to put it very mildly!) Blair and Bush have adopted with regards to the policies in the Middle East ARE the major sources of grievance.


Blair and Bush spout untold amounts of BULLSHIT. As citizens we are continually being told that the terrorists are out there (and among us) doing all they can to destroy "our way of life". HELLO!!! I think I must have missed that news bulletin. I don't ever recall reading nor hearing any of the speeches made by Osama Bin Laden and his cronies actually stating that their aim was the destruction of the "Western" way of life. Correct me if I am wrong, but what I HAVE heard and read on countless occasions is that al Qa'ida has stated that it's aims are the removal of the House of Saud and all "occupying" forces from Muslim lands.

I guess the point I am trying to make is this, without a doubt we are facing a threat to our national security and consequently we live in very uncertain, dangerous times. But to lie to us, the people who elected these politicians into power with crap about WHY we are in these uncertain times is immoral and so very wrong. As a friend of mine said to me, "it's much easier to bend a population to your own will if you can convince them that their way of life is at risk in itself, rather than because of what we do in their "enemy's" land. It's a sad truth, but truth all the same".