Friday, 15 August 2008

A new Tory foreign policy?

The news that David Cameron is off to Tblisi tomorrow must once again put the spotlight on the British or lack of British influence on the peace process in the Caucasus.

Cameron will meet political leaders in the Georgian capital and it is worth looking at his performance during this crisis.

Earlier in the week he was keen to evoke Churchillian language comparing the West's stand with the appeasement movement in the 1930's and his language and speeches were reminiscent of Mrs Thatcher's during the Cold war.

Is this a pointer to the future or is this the language of a politician in opposition? He certainly sounds like a strong Western leader and his weaken visit will have been designed to show the Russians where he is standing firm.

So in a Cameron world,what would we see?Strong action against Iran,Zimbabwe? But what if Obama is in the White House?

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