In the Sunday Telegraph there are four articles of note regarding the forthcoming memoirs of General Sir Richard Dannatt that are damning of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. I have always viewed Mr. Blair as the most toadying of politicians on either side of the Atlantic, Mr. Brown I found to epitomize, both in individual and public conduct, the dour Scotsman. Here is a quote which believe sums up General Sir Dannatt perspective,
History will pass judgment on these foreign adventures in due course, but in my view Gordon Brown’s malign intervention, when chancellor, on the SDR by refusing to fund what his own government had agreed, fatally flawed the en tire process from the outset.
“The seeds were sown for some of the impossible operational pressures to come.”
Mr Blair “lacked the moral courage to impose his will on his own chancellor”.
Here are the links:
One, Two, Three, and Four, which is excerpt from General Sir Danatt’s memoirs.
