Blair Asserts: Western Values Must Triumph Over Radical Islam!

In a stunning speech before the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, British Prime Minister Tony Blair bluntly described the clash of civilizations as a global clash of Western values versus Radical Islam. This is a self evident truth that most Western leaders have been until now reluctant to express publicly. This speech is reminiscent of Winston Churchill’s famous “Iron Curtain” speech in which he bluntly described the threat of global Communist expansionism.

Blair said that the struggle was between moderate, benign values versus the hatred and intolerance of fundamentalism: "Even the issue of Israel is just part of the same wider struggle for the soul of the region, if we recognize this struggle for what it truly is, we would be at least along the first steps of the path to winning it. But I fear a vast part of Western opinion is not remotely near this yet…. whatever the outward manifestation at any one time -- in Lebanon, in Gaza, in Afghanistan, in Kashmir, in a host of other nations, including now some in Africa -- this everywhere is a global fight about global values…it's about modernization within Islam and out of it. It's about whether our value system can be shown to be sufficiently robust, true, principled and appealing that it beats theirs."
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