The new British PM: "Tony Blair"

It has recently been announced that Prime Minister Tony Blair will resign this week as head of the British Government. His resignation from the Labour party has come after an enormous amount of public pressure from the media and private sector. But what does this entail on the international scene? Blair is regarded by some as a tyrant, a two-faced politician. On the public front, he opposes all the war in the Middle East (as he’s required to), but his government still provides Israel with the components and the means to protect themselves from the poor, malnutritioned, homeless threat to Israel’s safety. Handing over the reigns to a successor has very little hope of changing any sort of political stance on the war in the Middle East. This has been seen in the countless times of Israel’s own revolving government. Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon and now Mr. Olmert all three are acclaimed has heroes, even though all three have committed war crimes against the Palestinians, Lebanese and even other Jews.

The issue here is not that a new Prime Minister will bring a new face and a new outlook. It depends on who the new person is. The last election campaign in the United States demonstrated this, with Kerry vs. Bush. Kerry, a war-vet was seen has the beacon of hope to a corrupt government. But if we dissected his platform on the international level, there isn’t much difference as to what he offered against what Bush was implementing at the time. Kerry was, simply put, not George Bush. The same thing will happen in the British parliament unless it’s someone with real values, with real concerns, and not a suppressed racist hatred that some of the politicians have. Recently, I’ve been following the activities and statements of George Galloway a British MP. He has done a tremendous amount of work centered around bringing the truth out about the atrocities being committed in the Arab/Muslim world and has been critical about many of the Blair Government’s actions to preserve a stable Middle East. Many say that he’s just as bad as Blair, just wants the spotlight. Maybe, but he does have a strong message and always speaks the truth with an array of hard evidence to back it up. Why not give this guy a run in office? Couldn’t hurt to have a person who may actually give a damn about the issue making British foreign policy. Heck it may even save a few lives. Whomever is elected to replace Blair, let’s hope the foreign policy will not follow in the footsteps of the previous leader, or it will become a second chance to make the same mistake.