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Post by Anders on Sept 22, 2008 12:37:52 GMT -8
Tony Blair was on the Daily Show last week, and they devoted more of the program than usual to the interview (about two thirds of the time instead of half). I was once again impressed by Jon Stewart's incredible skill as a host for these segments: he's respectful of his guests while still being able to ask hard questions and he always appears to know what he's talking about, and while doing all this he manages to be funny.
Blair came off pretty good, I think. It's obvious that he's a smart guy and though I don't agree with his positions he can at least argue for them without falling back on canned sound bites.
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Sept 22, 2008 13:02:05 GMT -8
I thought it was a pretty good interview as well. Only problem is that Jon could have shot down that "Democracies don't go to war with other democracies", but he chose the wrong example (The Falklands war, and Blair was correct; AT THE TIME, there was a military government). If he had just chosen another example, he might have nailed it down harder (like, say, Israel vs. Lebannon '06?).
Michael
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Post by Anders on Sept 22, 2008 21:33:59 GMT -8
He probably would have said it wasn't a war but a police action or something; Israel going after Hizbollah rather than Lebanon.
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Post by paulpogue on Sept 23, 2008 18:03:00 GMT -8
He probably would have said it wasn't a war but a police action or something; Israel going after Hizbollah rather than Lebanon. I thought of several instances of wars between democracies in about ten seconds, but a decent debater could handwave them all away with some hokey-pokey along those lines. Particularly if you want to limit it to DECLARED wars. |
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Post by jarddavis on Oct 2, 2008 12:17:09 GMT -8
The thing about Blair though is...
he's not bovvered....
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