It's Alright Jack

Jack Straw has responded to the leaked document which appeared in Sunday's Observer. The leaked document was a letter from a top civil servant in the Foreign Office warning that UK foreign policy, particularly with regard to Iraq, was fuelling Islamic extremism in the UK. Jack's not having it though.

"We were in any event a target, and so was the rest of the world, from this extremist terrorism before Iraq," he said.

It's a curious coincidence that Straw has such an affinity with the strawman. His "defence" of the government position is entirely meaningless.

Here's a wee example of what I mean.
Once upon a time. there was a man called Jack who lived in the UK. As such, and in common with every other citizen in the country, he had to face the possibilty that he would be run over by a motor vehicle. There was only a small risk that this would happen, but there was a risk.
Jack decided it would be a good idea to persuade people to lie down in the middle of busy roads. When it was pointed out to him that this is a highly dangerous practise, and that more people were likely to be killed beause of his actions, he responded:

They were in any event a target, and so was the rest of the world, from this motor vehicle accident threat before I started persuading people to lie down in the middle of busy roads.

How true.

And here's me trying to cut down on blog swearing. Do me a favour Jack, go play with the traffic.