Mad Dogs and Englishmen?

Scarcely English or British at all, really. No love for this country, and no sense of her distinct national interest. They now stand exposed: in their belief in “al-Qaeda”, they are in perfect agreement with Gaddafi, and they are precisely as sane as he is. No wonder that Blair and Berlusconi got on as well with him as they did with each other.

That belief, like the belief in any conceivable connection between the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and the Shia-persecuting “Taliban”, or in “the global terrorist network”, or in “Taliban” distinct from the Pashtun as a whole, or in any connection between Afghanistan and 9/11, or in any connection between Iraq and 9/11, or in WMD in Iraq, or in such WMD as a threat to any Western country even if they had existed, or in an Iranian nuclear weapons programme, or in such a programme as a threat to any Western country even if it existed, has always put those who held it on exactly the same level as birthers, or as truthers, or as those who liken Obama to Hitler, or as those who likened Bush to Hitler, and as the followers of Lyndon LaRouche.

The same is true of belief in some Libyan nuclear weapons programme that Blair persuaded Gaddafi to abandon. The mark of a mad dog.