In fairness to Blair, this is not mere stubbornness, as it seems to the case with Bush and his current and erstwhile minions, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and, of course, Vice President Dick Cheney. For Blair, there is a moral unity between the interventions in Kosovo and Iraq, both of which he presents as examples of a post-Westphalian idea that powerful states are called upon to defend suffering communities globally, including by military means.
公平地说，布莱尔不像布什及其现任的和以前的幕僚唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德，保罗·沃尔佛维兹，当然，还有副总统迪克·切尼那样纯粹的顽固不化。对布莱尔来说，科索沃和伊拉克干预有道德上的一致性，他把两者都列为后威斯特法思想的典例，即应该号召强国在全球范围内捍卫受难地区，包括以军事方式。