El Barbudo wrote:I'll stick my neck out a little here and says that a bit more cosying-up to dictators (albeit an unpleasant thing to do) could save millions of lives.
I am of the view that Saddam was already back-tracking (e.g. Blix couldn't find any WMDs or any trace of them) in response to Western pressure and threat.
Who knows how much further he could have been persuaded to go?
In that sense, I'd agree.
But that's not what Blair is doing in Kazakhstan.