Blair: It's a clash of value systems, whatever

If your're a Muslim, and you are fighting - who or what it does not matter - then according to the British Neocon prime minister Tony Blair you are fighting 'us' and our fabulous value system.

From Blair speech to the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles:

"Whatever the outward manifestation at any one time - in Lebanon, in Gaza, in Iraq and add to that in Afghanistan, in Kashmir, in a host of other nations including now some in Africa - it is a global fight about global values; it is about modernisation, within Islam and outside of it; it is about whether our value system can be shown to be sufficiently robust, true, principled and appealing that it beats theirs" Full text