Tony Blair has once again made an eloquent case that I wish President Bush had made. The UK Independent reports:Warning it would take the West another 20 years to defeat Islamic terrorism, the Prime Minister used a wide-ranging "swansong" lecture on defence to denounce critics and the media who have been a thorn in his side since the invasion of Iraq.He also dismissed those - including many defence chiefs - who claimed the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath had fuelled insurgents and terrorism.The Prime Minister rejected as "ludicrous" the notion that removing two dictatorships in Afghanistan and Iraq and replacing them with a UN-backed process to democracy had made Britain a greater target for international terrorism.Very few people in the United States have the guts to lay out the case that the media in the United States and the UK have acted as de facto allies of the terrorists. Blair, a man of the left himself, does not shrink from the painful...(Read Full Post)