The Odd Couple, Bush-Blair synergy
The Odd Couple, Bush-Blair synergy - why?
“In that event, it will come down to something else, something that is perhaps the simple lynchpin of the Bush-Blair connection. That simple thing is the conviction that we are actually involved in a profound global struggle in which Saddam Hussein’s regime is quite clearly on the side of evil. Bush believes this and so does Blair. Perhaps it’s reading the classified reports of Saddam’s tyranny, its Hitlerian brutality, its moral shamelessness, that has convinced Blair of this. Perhaps it’s his Christian faith, shared with Bush, that acknowledges that there are times when evil cannot be appeased, ignored or simply forgotten, but must be confronted. But both men clearly hold that there are times when political leaders must do things simply because they are the right and moral thing to do, that there are moments when conscience matters, in fact, when conscience is the only thing that matters. This core conviction, a bedrock for both men’s different faiths and divergent politics, is what will keep them together in the coming difficult and dark months. The forging of a new and potent Anglo-American relationship for the next century could well be the result.”