[Skybird]

I stay away from the poll, for of all the three major foreign powers, US, Britain, France - Britain is the one about whose inner political landscape I know by far the fewest (the least?), and thus I do not know too well what Blair's impact on inner politics has been. Just remembering some events is not good enough, I suppose.But in a poll asking for what will form his perception in history, his support for the pyrrhus victory in Afghanistan and the total failure in Iraq stand above everything, and will form the way he will be remembered, I think.I perceived Blair as a "Moralapostel" (which really is no compliment in German) from the very beginning, who thought himself to have a moral mission. I do not trust such people, and even less if they are politicians. I did not like Blair when he came, and I do not shed a tear now when he goes. The only bad thing is that he never will ne held accountable for the quite deliberate mess he helped to create, and the lies he supported - for moral reasons, of course. Morals cannot replace reason. Morals cannot justify to forge the truth. For me he just was a damn and very arrogant cheater.