Tony Blair

Number three, you've got to have the right personnel.

And number four, you've got to performance manage.

Once you've decided something and you've got a policy, you've got to focus on the implementation.

Now, whether you're running the United States of America, you're running a small African country, those things are always true.

Yeah, it's very difficult.

I think you can do... I mean, if you take Iran today, I don't think there's any appetite in the West, certainly, to go and enforce regime change.

But I think you could...

do two things that are really important because Iran is basically the origin of most of the destabilization across the Middle East region and beyond.

First of all, you can constrain it as much as possible.

And secondly, you can build alliances, which mean that their ability to impact is reduced.

But it's a constant problem because they're determined to acquire nuclear weapons capability.

We want to stop them doing that.

We don't want to engage in regime change.

On the other hand, all the other things that you do will be limited in their effect.

So it's difficult.

It's very difficult, particularly now where you have an alliance that has grown up where China, Russia, Iran, to a degree North Korea, work closely together.

Well, it's difficult.

And with experience, you know, the benefit of hindsight, particularly in relation to Iraq, you've got to go much deeper and you've got to not take the fact that there was all these problems in the past as an indication of what's happening now.

But

or in the future.