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Another day, another mission. flying high over the English Channel toward Germany, Tony Blair puts the finishing touches on a speech that would lavish praise on Chancellor Gerhard Schroder for committing troops to Afghanistan--Germany's first fighting role outside Europe since World War II. As a secretary types the changes into her laptop, Blair takes up a reporter's question: This is your 32d flight since September 11. You've had some 60 meetings with world leaders. What drives you to do this?
Blair turns to gaze out the window at passing clouds. He's lost the summer tan of September, in the early days of the war. He looks trim but tired. "The 11th of September ...