Blair’s use of human rights rhetoric
Posted by Tony S on September 18, 2010, 9:45 am

Great alert, Eds but it’s a shame it didn’t contain this exchange with Time magazine:

Time: Your wife chaired a press conference about the treatment of women in Afghanistan. What about Saudi Arabia? Do you approve of the way women are treated there?

Blair: I’m not going to get in the business of attacking the Saudi system.

Time: But you do attack the Afghan system.

Blair: yes, but we are in a conflict with the Taliban regime…At. the present time I don’t think it’s very helpful for us to tell the Saudis how they should live (10 December 2001).

In other words, at the present time, Blair doesn’t care about the oppression of women in Saudi Arabia because the Saudi regime remains subservient to the economic interests of Western elites.

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The piece by the Medialens Editors referred to is at

http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1284721957.top

Alert: A Journey Unchallenged – Andrew Marr Interviews Tony Blair