MCGUIRK: The Iran war looks more dubious by the day
It is an article of faith in modern politics that the 2003 invasion of Iraq by President George W. Bush was one of the great destabilising errors of the century, even though it took place only three years into the century. Those who retain their objections to that war, and those who have come to see it as an error, fell roughly into two camps.
On one hand were those who insisted that the war was “illegal” – a charge often made about wars as if illegality was the worst thing about wars to begin with. They cite that the conflict was initiated on an ultimately false claim about Saddam Hussein’s possession of weapons of mass destruction, and without the backing of the United Nations. Most of those people have the same objection to the Iran war today. They are free to have it, but “process” objections are and should be always less relevant in geopolitics than outcome-led objections.
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