Blair: U.S. Needs to Integrate With World

Drudge is reporting that Tony Blair is saying U.S. Needs to Integrate With World:

Associated Press Writer

January 26, 2005, 1:42 PM EST

DAVOS, Switzerland -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair called on the United States Wednesday to take the world's needs into account when it seeks global support for its actions, and cited climate change as an issue all nations must address together.

"If America wants the rest of the world to be part of the agenda it has set, it must be part of their agenda, too," Blair told the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.

Blair pledged to help developing countries reduce pollution and build more environmentally friendly economies.

Blair called for a common agenda worldwide, at the top of which would be cooperation in the fight against terrorism. He also urged that the world's countries protect human rights and freedom and "when we can, seek to increase the number of people able to live in democracy."

Question: What if the rest of the world doesn't want to do what needs to be done, like take out a dictator who happens to be paying off many who don't want the party to end. Wasn't there a huge conflict of interest among our would be allies (France, Germany and the U.N.)? They were profiting from Saddam; they didn't want it to end and so they opposed us. What then, Mr. Blair?

That's the problem with a 'world body' who hasn't the resolve to do what needs to be done. In those cases, we must do what we need to do. And we did.