Here’s Tony Blair, speaking at AIPAC yesterday:
We should be clear also.
Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons capability.
They must know that we will do whatever it takes to stop them getting it.
Emphasis added. This doesn’t really differ from long-established US policy except that the Americans tend to be a little less vocal when it comes to pledging military action. Then again, they’d be the ones having to take the decision to attack and they, not Blair, would be the ones who’d have to deal with the consequences.The danger is if they suspect for a moment we might allow such a thing.
Doubtless Blair would protest that he trusts the matter won’t come to a head and doubtless too he’s right to suppose that there’s an element of game theory to all of this. But even Blair must appreciate, even when speaking at AIPAC, that he’s talking though his hat.
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