![]() ![]() "Our armed forces will be deployed in the lands of other nations far from home, with no immediate threat to our territory, in environments and in ways unfamiliar to them," he said. What happens in Pakistan, or Indonesia, or in the attenuated struggles for territory and supremacy in Africa for example, in Sudan or Somalia - the new frontiers for our security are global," he said. "What happens in the Middle East affects us. "The frontiers of our security no longer stop at the Channel," he said. Blair's speech reprised an address he made in Chicago in 1999 setting out a doctrine to justify intervention beyond Britain's borders. Blair is suffering declining popularity because of the wars, particularly Iraq, and it is not at all certain that his successors even in his own party will adhere to his policies. Kampfner said, also offered a challenge to his probable successor, Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, "to say: what would you do in my position?" Like Mr. John Kampfner, an author and editor of The New Statesman, said in a radio interview: "I say with regret that this calamity that has been Iraq has diminished not just Britain and its role in the world but has set back this cause that Tony Blair espouses" of "humanitarian intervention to do things around the world which are for the broader good." ![]() "He has made the world much more dangerous, much more divided," said Clare Short, a former minister who quit the government as the Iraq campaign unfolded. Some left-wing critics dismissed the prime minister's attempt to justify his use of military action as a tool of foreign policy. "Those who do war fighting and peacekeeping and those who have, effectively, except in the most exceptional circumstances, retreated to peacekeeping alone. ![]() "There are two types of nations similar to ours today," he said. Blair avoided any triumphalism, he advocated a muscular commitment by Britain to overseas military deployment alongside what he called softer options. The choreography recalled President Bush's "mission accomplished" address aboard the U.S.S. Blair chose to give his speech to an audience of military specialists aboard the HMS Albion, a transport vessel moored near Plymouth. He was speaking one day after Britain said it would not follow the United States in committing more troops to Iraq, prompting speculation among analysts that the trans-Atlantic allies had begun to follow markedly divergent strategies after years of close alliance. Blair, who has said he will leave office this year, made his appeal in the sixth of a series of lectures ranging over social, political and now defense issues, offering a valedictory resume of his almost 10 years in power. To retreat in the face of global terrorism, he said, would be "a catastrophe." LONDON - As he seeks to define his legacy and stamp his imprint on the future, Prime Minister Tony Blair urged his successors today to maintain the warlike foreign policy that he promoted, sending troops into battle in Africa and the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. ![]()
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