02/08/2006 (Agence Europe) - In a speech made to the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles, the British prime minister Tony Blair acknowledged that Washington and London's strategies in the Middle East had to be modified as “we are far from persuading those we need to persuade” that western values were even-handed, fair and just in their application. He said that the only way to defeat the arc of extremism was to build an “alliance of moderation” that allowed people of different...