Tony Blair’s New Call to Arms

During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, in 2003, Tony Blair, who was then the British prime minister, was a leading voice of the liberal interventionists. Now, with Iraq on the brink of a sectarian civil war, he has reëntered the fray, publishing a long essay calling for military strikes targeted at the jihadis in northern Iraq as part of a broader campaign against the forces of militant Islam. “This does not mean Western troops as in Iraq,” Blair writes. “There are masses of responses we can make short of that. But they need to know that, wherever they’re engaged in terror, we will be hitting them.”

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