We're not big on titles over here
Airbubba, you surprise me! The US is usually depicted as being obsessed with titles, hence the interest in the UK Royal Family, and frequent searches for UK ancestors, to see if there is a dukedom hidden away somewhere in the past!
Would a Tony Blair visit generate multiple threads on an American aviation forum
This side of the pond, I don't think many of us really care what Tony does. For the record, Jack Straw (UK Foreign Sec) was in Iraq earlier this week. No covert operation for him. It was reported that a mortar fell on the compound where he was staying.
As to our obsession, only 25% of the responses to this thread were posted by people obviously from the UK!