Bruce Anderson rides to David Cameron’s support over foreign policy in today’s Independent. In the piece, he writes that two key members of the shadow cabinet, Liam Fox and Michael Gove, are among the half-dozen or so neo-cons who still exist in British political and journalistic life. But this seems to ignore the shadow cabinet’s most senior neo-con, George Osborne. (I should say that I’m one of the very few people who’d use the term as a compliment not an insult)
In a piece in The Spectator in 2004, Osborne offered a trenchant defence of Bush and Blair’s response to 9/11 and of the neo-con vision for the Middle East. Here are two key quotes from the piece.
“Then there are those who say the ‘war on terror’ is the wrong response. I say to them: what other response could there be?”
“Since the war, the process of rebuilding Iraq has been slow and painful, as it was in Germany and Japan after the second world war.
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