Reflection on a discourse by Tony Blair to the American Congress

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05/17/2009

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Table of Contents Reflection on a discourse by Tony Blair to the American Congress Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. The failure of UK and US to follow the diplomatic path
  3. The attack by Al Qaida
  4. The absolutist approach
  5. Employing the term 'universal values'
  6. Conclusion
  7. Footnotes

Abstract

tony blair addressed a discourse to the congress of the United States of America (USA) on July, 17th, 2003. It is a political text strongly related to the political context at that point of time, which I will discuss later on. The discourse can be explained by looking at each of the sentences and relating them to other concepts. Some of these key concepts are America's fear of the unknown, blair's ambivalence in politics, the relativist versus the absolute theory of ethics. First of all, the text being addressed in July 2003, many crucial events occurred on the world arena of international relations not long before that. The war on Iraq had only "ended" a few months earlier (may 2003). A lot of issues still had to be solved regarding Iraq. Earlier before, the war on Afghanistan had been conducted by the US, and the war on terrorism was still going on. The world was divided on these war. blair and the US were in favor of the war whereas some others countries were against it (i.e. France, Germany, Russia). That led Mr blair to a serious problem, which stance should he take, the american or the European one? The people of the UK were mostly against the Iraq war, however the historical background has to be taken into account here.

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