Religious war
It was inevitable that some battle-hardened group of Sunni fundamentalists such as the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Shams and Syria would invade and scatter Iraq’s US-trained toy soldiers. When Bush-Blair toppled Saddam Hussein and their successors undermined Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Libya’s Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, they unleashed a religious war not seen since the nightmare of 17th century Europe. It is time the Blair doctrine of foreign intervention in the name of liberal values, proclaimed before 9/11 but put into action thereafter, was consigned to the dustbin of history.
(Dr) John Cameron
Howard Place
St Andrews, Fife