Tony Blair

My official position is still that Tony Blair is a very bad man who deployed his considerable political skills on behalf of an addled policy in Iraq, but watching him talk one remembers that a good deal of the bitterness stems from the fact that he's so damned charming and, thus, was able to convince a lot of left-of-center Americans that the policy wasn't nearly as addled as it was.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/09/tony-blair/46454/