One of Blair’s character flaws is self-righteousness, an excessive confidence – perhaps an extrapolation of his Christian faith – that he knows what is correct, and is therefore entitled to act accordingly. In the case of the Iraq war, Blair has never conceded that the war was mistaken in conception or disastrous in practice: for him, it was still “the right thing to do.”
布莱尔在伊拉克战争的全面后果展现出来之前离职。现在，教派冲突没有结束的迹象，而伊拉克成为一个和平、统一的民主国家毫无希望。而且，伊拉克的内乱很有可能在整个中东地区造成不可估量的后果。