Tony Blair has always enjoyed his favorite costume: the peacemaker. A Nobel-prize smile, a PowerPoint full of “solutions,” and a rolodex of Gulf patrons. But peel back the PR varnish and what remains is one of the most destructive salesmen of war in modern times — a man whose policies turned Iraq into rubble, Afghanistan into a graveyard of promises, and who now, with astonishing audacity, is whispered about as the “Regent of Gaza.”
Yes, you read that right: the man who sold a lie to Parliament about Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction,” who tied Britain’s destiny to George W. Bush’s cowboy wars, is now being floated as a manager of Gaza’s future. If it weren’t grotesque, it would almost be comic.
Iraq: The War That Had “No Imminent Threat”
The Chilcot Inquiry laid it bare:
- “When Britain joined the US-led invasion in March 2003, the Iraqi dictator posed ‘no imminent threat’.”
- “Policy on the Iraq invasion was made on the basis of flawed intelligence assessments … not challenged, and should have been.”
- “The scale of the UK effort in post-conflict Iraq never matched the scale of the challenge.”
Translation: Blair the UK into a war of choice, ignored dissent, parroted dodgy intelligence, and then botched the aftermath.
Chilcot’s conclusion was devastating: Blair was “not straight with the nation.” Families of the dead soldiers called him a war criminal. Iraqi civilians had no need to read the report — their cities and families bore the evidence in real time.
Blair’s own words after the report are almost Shakespearean in their irony: “I accept responsibility in full — without exception or excuse.” And then, in the next breath: “If I was back in the same place with the same information, I would take the same decision.” A confession and a refusal, rolled into one politician’s shrug.
Afghanistan: The Endless War of Broken Promises
Before Iraq, there was Afghanistan. Blair proudly announced Britain’s role in 2001: “There are three parts, all equally important, to the operation … military, diplomatic, and humanitarian.” The promise was liberation and reconstruction. The reality was twenty years of destruction.
By 2021, Blair railed against America’s withdrawal, calling it “imbecilic” — as if the true tragedy wasn’t two decades of shattered lives, but the fact that his precious intervention was finally over.
The numbers are unforgiving:
- At least 46,000 Afghan civilians killed directly in the war.
- Up to 170,000 civilian deaths if you count indirect causes.
- A country left with mass displacement, collapsed health care, and the Taliban back in Kabul.
A “humanitarian coalition”? No — a war that killed more civilians than terrorists, all cheered on by Blair as a junior partner to George W. Bush.
Gaza: The “Technocrat” Sells Stability While Children Starve
And now, Blair resurfaces — not in Baghdad, not in Kabul, but in Gaza. The enclave where hospitals have been leveled, where children are deliberately starved, where entire families are erased in seconds by airstrikes.
Amnesty International:
- “Israel has carried out acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention … with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza.”
- “Evidence demonstrates Israel has used starvation of civilians as a weapon of war.”
Human Rights Watch:
- “This strike inflicted massive civilian casualties without an apparent military target … one of scores of attacks causing overwhelming carnage.”
- “Israeli forces … have routinely opened fire on starving civilians … serious violations of international law and war crimes.”
And into this living hell, empire sends — Tony Blair. His Tony Blair Institute, flush with Gulf money, sells “development” and “stability packages” that sound more like a corporate rebranding pitch than a liberation strategy. Food, medicine, electricity? Maybe — if Palestinians surrender politics, agency, and dignity in return.
The Pattern: Disaster as a Business Model
The pattern is unmistakable:
- Iraq: invent a threat, invade, profit from “post-war solutions.”
- Afghanistan: partner in occupation, then lecture the world when it collapses.
- Gaza: propose to manage the ruins, as though the blood of children can be administrated like a consultancy portfolio.
Blair’s genius is not statecraft. It is marketing catastrophe as governance.
The Climax: Regent of Gaza
And here is the climax of this sordid drama: Tony Blair, a man accused by his own people of war crimes, condemned by inquiry after inquiry, haunted by the ghosts of Iraq and Afghanistan, is now being whispered about as the Regent of Gaza.
A war criminal elevated as a peace manager. A salesman of empire given the keys to a caged people. A man whose “humanitarian coalitions” left only body counts, now dressing Gaza’s genocide in the language of “post-war solutions.”
It is not just shameful. It is obscene. Gaza does not need a Regent. Gaza needs freedom, justice, and the end of manufactured catastrophes sold as “necessary wars.”
History will not remember Blair as a peacemaker. It will remember him as a grinning technocrat of empire — a man who followed Bush into hell, and now wants to sell Gaza the ashes.
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