Well over the last couple of days both President Bush (just for you RJ..lol) and Blair have been trying to justify their actions to their respective nations.

Blair especially has been bringing Afganistan back into the frame with what looks like some backtracking.

We all recall the invaision of Afganistan and how once they had taken it the US and UK military might was just moved on to Iraq leaving the Afgan folk to sort themselves out, well this hasnt been going to well of late so we are now having to move more troops back to Afganistan to try and sort things out there.

Can out leaders get ANYTHING right?

The only thing they seem to do is make a mess of things, with continued sleaze coming to the fore in the British press about Blairs political party (Labour). Firstly Tessa Jowell’s husband (she’s the culture minister in Blairs cabinet) being linked to a fraud case involving the Italian Prime Minister, then how he nearly lost the vote on the Education Bill as so many of his own party voted against it, now we have a Loans enquiry being carried out by the police, whats going to be next.

I know we can all sit here and pick holes and slate any political leader, but you all have to admit things have been run very badly both sides of the Atlantic.

It’s going to take a brave leader to stand up and admit mistakes have been made and things need to change drastically, otherwise things are just going to get worse. I just wonder if both are leaders are praying for another terrorist attack on home soil to justify further actions against the countries they already occupy or to give them another fictious reason to invade more, such as Iran.

I believe this series of 3 speeches Blair is giving on the UK Foreign Policy are his swansong. He is laying it out how he see’s things with Afganistan, Iraq and Iran and will sometime in the very near future give his notice of stepping down as he has always indicated he will do before the end of his term and hand the reigns over to Gordon Brown. Somehow I think the train of thought that Blair has is also been implanted into Brown’s head and things will not change.

Looks like Iraq, Afganistan and Iran will rumble on for years to come as many press reports have indicated. The scarey thing is, how far will all sides go. There is going to be a lot more blood spilt in the months, years to come!

Tim