I will miss Tony Blair

WORLD: “Why You’ll Miss This Man,” by Michael Elliott, Time, 14 May 2007, p. 52.

Ending says it all:

The questions Blair asked--When should we meddle in another nation’s life? Why should everything be left to the U.S.? What are the wellsprings of mutual cultural and religious respect? How can the West show its strength without using guns?--will continue to be asked for a generation. We will miss him when he’s gone.

The best politician of our age.

I remain a Tony Blair Democrat.

Comments

[Eric Chen]

"By 2003, Iraq was already a ruined nation ..."

If it's been proven that we were wrong about WMD and, as many say, it was wrong of us to go to war with Iraq over WMD in 2003, would it therefore have been *right* for us *not* to go to war with Iraq over WMD in 2003 and thereby actively participate in keeping Iraq as a "ruined nation" indefinitely due to the same WMD?

[Eric Chen]

And I agree, I'll miss Tony Blair, too. It's unfortunate that doing the right thing is so much more difficult than talking about it.