The former US Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger has re-floated the idea of containment. This is exactly what I proposed in my book, The Dawning of a New Dark Age. I suggested that an 'Iron Veil' be dropped between our two worlds. This is another way of stating that Islam should be contained.
Naturally, I am very pleased that Henry Kissinger should have come to the same conclusion as I.
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When Tony Blair and George Bush meet at the White House for dinner on Thursday, they will be contemplating the beginning of the end of a relationship that has seen their policies dominate the world scene but which have left them weakened at home for their final years in office.©Mark Alexander
In one of its perhaps less elegant wordplays, the Economist magazine declared that the two now constituted as "an axis of feeble."
Their common cause in Iraq has not delivered the success they believed was assured.
On this visit, they will seek to justify that cause but they know that some are withholding judgment until events deliver their own verdict.
Others have made their judgment anyway.
And as the curtain prepares to come down, there are already voices being heard offstage calling for an end to the policies of intervention that have characterised the approach of both men.
A return to the past?
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recently seemed to be re-floating the old Cold War policy of containment. Final curtain for Bush and Blair by Paul Reynolds
