Blair is mad

Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Blair is wildly exaggerating the threat posed by terrorism: "After 1990 many hoped that an age of stable peace might dawn. Rich nations might disarm and combine to help the poor, advancing the cause of global responsibility. Instead two of history's most internationalist states, America and Britain, have returned to the trough of conflict, chasing a chimera of 'world terrorism', and at ludicrous expense. They have brought death and destruction to a part of the globe that posed no strategic threat. Now one of them, Tony Blair, stands in a patch of desert to claim that 'world security in the 21st century' depends on which warlord controls it. Was anything so demented?"

I commented as follows in response to another commenter's question:

That Blair's grip on reality is loose, if not lost, is demonstrated day after day, week after week. Simon Jenkins' article has that nailed.

gulfbridge asks a very pertinent question:

"Why is this lunatic still Prime Minister of Great Britain? Why hasn’t his party applied pressure for the handover to Brown to happen now rather than later?"

The fact is that Blair is actually being forced out of office - exactly by his party.

Has this happened as quickly as it could have happened? No, perhaps not. I, as a Labour party member, certainly wish it had happened sooner. But happening it certainly is.

I am hopeful that the new dispensation will be less crazy than the current one. I'm not a Brown fan either, but I can't see him - or anyone else for that matter - driving on with the peculiar Blair insanity. "