Tony Blair’s massive unpopularity appears to be seriously damaging the American alliance:

[T]hree fifths (62 per cent) agree that “in order to reduce the risk of future terrorist attacks on Britain the Government should change its foreign policy, in particular by distancing itself from America, being more critical of Israel and declaring a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq”. Women (66 per cent) and Liberal Democrat voters (74 per cent) agree with this view particularly strongly.
Nonetheless, a similar proportion of voters (63 per cent) believe that “Muslim extremists hate democracy and the Western way of life, and if Britain’s foreign policy were different they would find another excuse for their terrorist activities”. This is a widely held view, backed by two thirds of Labour and Tory voters, but only just over a half (53 per cent) of Lib Dems.

So, despite having, in my view, a realistic assessment of the motivations of the alliance’s enemies, the British people are repudiating policies closely identified with the Prime Minister. This is a serious issue. If the Anglo-American alliance is broken or even seriously weakened, our enemies will have acheived a victory the Soviets could not.