Watching Tony Blair on the Daily Show. And he is arguing that there is some sort of Moral Charge that the US (and er Lesser Old Eastern America, formerly, Albion, etc) have been Morally Charged with, meaning, a Moral Charge to reform all the perfidies of the Unreconstructed Brutes in the Former Colonies, namely, the Musselmen.
I exaggerate but not by much.
Blair was once upon a time not such a... person you would have felt good about hitting, frankly. And I honestly challenge anyone with even a smidgen of self-respect nowadays to merely glance passingly at Tony Blair and not want to walk off with his lunch money, his skivvies hooked up high on a locker knob.
What on earth happened?
He used to be a lot more tough-minded about, well, Ireland. And more thoughtful. But not even to get into that stuff, it is a bizarre irony that the more Tony Blair seems to have accepted the idea that SOMEONE needs to take on the mantle of Defender of the West, the more he comes across as a guy who Grima Wormtongue would have sneered at as too sycophantic & spineless. The stiff upper lip meets the quivering lower-lip sensing tongue. It's just embarrassing.