In deploying soldiers to Afghanistan and Iraq, he was convinced that he was both morally correct and politically right to stand by Britain’s main historic ally, the United States. (It is reasonably certain that he would not have trusted Brown to do any of these things in the face of any serious opposition, and also reasonably certain that he was correct to think so.)
En déployant des soldats en Afghanistan et en Irak, il était convaincu du bien fondé, tant moral que politique, de sa détermination à soutenir les Etats-Unis, grands alliés de l’histoire du Royaume-Uni (il est certain qu’il n’aurait pas fait confiance à Brown s’il avait agi de la sorte en dépit d’une forte opposition et il aurait eu raison de penser ainsi).