  I have to give Tony Blair a lot of credit. He has stepped up to the plate on the War on Terrorism and taken some fastballs in the face. Unfortunately, in politics, you never get to take first. Perhaps I should have come up with something more apt for a British political post (i.e. a urlLink football metaphor), but the baseball comparison seems to make more sense. Regardless, it appears clear that Blair has discovered the urlLink futility of going to the UN for action . Courtesy of urlLink Matt Drudge . 
