Due to the common language and recent defense ties, most Americans have no clue how serious an enemy Britain used to be to the US. Tony Blair is especially dangerous because Americans like him.
They don't know that he's the elected president of the Socialist Internationale, to which the Democratic Socialists of America belong. (70+ members in Congress.) They in turn, belong to the Communist Party. Small world, eh?
Well after hearing Red Ken and Galloway, Tony Blair is A-OK in my book. I'm not askeered of him. Socialist leanings or not.
Seriously, I refuse to entertain conversation of Britain being any kind of enemy to the US. We dealt with that matter 230 years ago. They are only temporarily misguided, at worst. Our job is to help them recover from their labour binge, and to help them defend themselves against the very real threat that stalks the streets of London right now.
Anyone who thinks Tony Blair is a socialist either has no conception whatever of British politics, or subscribes to a definition of socialism so vague as to make it virtually meaningless.