Tony Blair’s Vietnam: The Iraq War and the ‘special relationship’ in historical perspective

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1469-9044|33|2|189-203

ISSN: 0260-2105

Source: Review of International Studies, Vol.33, Iss.2, 2007-04, pp. : 189-203

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Abstract

This article examines Tony Blair’s policy and posture on Iraq through the prism of the special relationship in which he was reared. At the same time, it examines his policy and posture on the special relationship through the prism of Iraq. In this context it proposes a Vietnam analogy of a kind, with reference to Blair’s white-hot predecessor Harold Wilson: a curious affinity of fate – disenchantment, disgrace, and moral ruination.