Blair Sweats It Out: Bush may have angered much of the world, and even his most stalwart ally faces a revolt within his own political party.(President George W. Bush; Prime Minister Tony Blair)

Publication: Newsweek

Publication Date: 24-MAR-03

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Byline: Stryker McGuire

Tony Blair thought he was doing the world a favor. After the attacks of September 11, the British prime minister calculated that he could restrain President George W. Bush's instinctive unilateralism and turn him into "a born-again internationalist," as a Blair associate once put it. At first, it seemed to work. With Blair as his evangelist in chief, Bush assembled the broad coalition that went to war in Afghanistan and against Al Qaeda. Then came Iraq. With Blair urging him...

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