Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader, by Philip Stephens. Viking, 288 pages, $25.95.
The Point of Departure , by Robin Cook. Simon and Schuster, 384 pages, $27.
Two years ago, Tony Blair’s standing could scarcely have been higher-a liberal national leader prepared to make common cause with an ultra-conservative American Read More
It seems inexplicable. Donald Rumsfeld even offered him a way out last week, when he dismissed the idea that the British would be helping America fight and win in Iraq. Right then, Tony Blair could have seized the peacekeeper’s role: After all the shooting, British troops march into Baghdad-to help enforce the Pax Americana. But Read More
Iraq has already cost Tony Blair his premiership. Success in the war, as long as it is quick and relatively bloodless, may stave off the hour of reckoning by two or three years, but when the history of his government is written, Iraq will be seen as the turning point, and Mr. Blair will be Read More
It wasn’t only in London, Paris and Berlin that hundreds of thousands took to the streets on Saturday, Feb. 15, in protest against war in Iraq-there were plenty of protesters on the streets of American cities. To characterize “old Europe” as peopled wholly by cheese-eating surrender monkeys and the U.S.A. by a warrior race uniformly Read More
