The major tragedy: electing Mr. Blair

Sent today to "World Have Your Say," BBC.com.

While I have to thank the BBC for bringing to me Jimmy Carter's "Tragedy for the World" statement today, I notice two subtle inaccuracies in presenting the report.

First off, the president said a 'major' tragedy while the presenter excluded this important adjective.

Second, the U S president said "Great Britain" and not the "Blair government"'s support.. as the presenter did.

I've attached 20 second clip that has the presnter's voice and Mr. Carter's voice so you can check that I am right.

I think few in the west who crow about what a wonderful democratic system they have realize that in democracies the citizens become responsible for the actions of their elected leaders.

President Carter is right to say that "Great Britain's" support to the U S government's adventure is a major trajedy for the world. What this implies to me is that the decision of the British people to elect Mr. Blair was the major tragedy that the world has had to suffer.

In a democracies there is responsibility, consequence and by extension culpability. The world really doesn't care who the nexy or part British primeminster or who the next or past U S president will be. These are 'democratic' countries - and collectivelty, therefore, their citizens are accountable

The British people could get a camel for Tony Blair so he can ride through Iran to look for weapons of mass destruction there. That would help the next U S president to start another adventure. But it is not they who will have to live with the fear of retaliatory retribution for these gratuitous tragedies that U K and U S cannot but 'collaterally' inflict upon te world to 'secure' their assets and their 'national interests'. The fear and anxiety for inflicting major trageies upon the world falls to the share of the democratic people of those countries whose people elect such dangerously foolish people as their representaives.

Mr Carter, the peanut farmer and habitat builder, has little feudal experience. He would otherwise know that the US U-K relationship is feudally formatted. And any feudal lord could tell him that in this format the 'masters' ends up getting controlled and manipulated by their subservient vassals. The United States, the world's largest borrower nation, has never had any truly independent foreign policy that was not disastrous. In fact, along with "Australia" and "Canada" it may be a separate political entity but even an unlettered Asian or African fool knows they are actually cultural extensions of Europe - a disaster zone' since its countries quarreled away their empires; the unfortunate people of Great Britain are now living at ground zero.