Ken MacLeod says:
It’s recently struck me that the moderate, liberal, democratic and humane response to the build-up to the Iraq war should have been to argue for the West to arm Iraq. It’s not merely the case that invading Iraq was a distraction from fighting Al-Qaeda: it was objectively fighting on the same side as Al-Qaeda. If you’re serious about fighting Islamic fundamentalist terrorists, the last thing you’d want to do, on the face of it, is overthrow – or even weaken – one of the few regimes in the region that was capable of and interested in crushing them within its borders. But that’s what the US and UK did. The conclusion must be that they have other priorities that come higher than fighting Al-Qaeda.
But what could those priorities be…
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