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CORRELLI BARNETT: Don't blame our heroic troops, but we leave Iraq in a worse state than under Saddam
By CORRELLI BARNETT FOR MAILONLINE
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Today, Gordon Brown will announce triumphantly to the House of Commons that all British forces will be withdrawn from Iraq by July next year.
The announcement comes five years and nine months after his predecessor, Tony Blair, conned the House (and especially the Conservative Opposition) into backing his decision to join George W. Bush in an attack on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, although it posed no direct threat whatsoever to Britain or the U.S.
Brown will tell the House that Britain can withdraw its 4, troops because we can leave the peace and security of the Basra region safely in the hands of the Iraqi government and its British-trained army.
Bloodshed continues: The site of a car bomb attack outside a police post in the Munstansariyah district of Baghdad yesterday where at least eight people died
Just as we were ‘spun’ into the Iraq war by the lies of Alastair Campbell and Tony Blair about weapons of mass destruction which could be fired in 45 minutes, so we are to be spun out of Iraq on the basis that it was ‘mission accomplished’, politically and militarily.
But this, too, is a lie. The truth is that we will leave I
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America’s Foreign Policy Crisis
For most of its history the United States has vacillated among different foreign policy philosophies. Today we face a world in which our rivals and enemies have been emboldened by our seeming retreat from being the dominant power a globalized economy needs to ensure order and stability. Our current inability to decide on a course of action, however, is a dangerous inflection point that may lead to increasing global disorder and the decline of America’s power to protect its security and interests.
When America was a new nation, it wanted to avoid the quarrels of the Old World and its “entangling alliances,” as Thomas Jefferson called them, echoing George Washington’s warning against “permanent alliances.” The United States should influence other nations as an “example” of ordered liberty, a sentiment famously expressed by John Quincy Adams in America should be a nation of “well-wishers to the freedom and independence of all,” but one that “goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.”
Yet even in its youth, the United States found itself embroiled in European wars. The global trade created by the British Empire, and the Napoleonic Wars that followed the French Revolution, necessarily led to conflict with other nations—as when Britain imp
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