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.)
没有任何一个政治家没有命运感，我想布莱尔还算更有此感。当他决定派遣英国士兵保卫赛拉利昂不受利比里亚的野蛮入侵时，他降服了那些警告会发生灾难的人并且赢得了巨大的道义上的赞誉。当他向阿富汗和伊拉克部署士兵时，他坚信他与英国主要的历史性盟国美国肩并肩的时候，他在道义和政治上都是正确的。(他在面临强烈反对的时候，不会把任何这些事情交付给布朗，这是合理无疑的，而且，他这样想也是正确的，这也是合理无疑的)。