![]() It, in turn, has been supplying the Assad regime with modern arms and is suspected of shipping an array of missiles and other munitions to Hezbollah. Iran has been acquiring an assortment of modern weapons from Russia and possesses its own substantial arms industry. While the United States has been fighting ISIS and other terrorist entities in the Middle East and elsewhere in recent years, such warfare bears little relation to engaging a modern state determined to defend its sovereign territory with professional armed forces that have the will, if not necessarily the wherewithal, to counter major US weapons systems.Īll of these forces have been equipping themselves with massive arrays of modern weaponry in recent years, ensuring that any fighting will be intense, bloody, and horrifically destructive. Like the first two Gulf wars, the third could involve high-intensity clashes between an array of American forces and those of Iran, another well-armed state. The Third Gulf War-not against Iraq but Iran and its allies-will undoubtedly result in another American “victory” that could loose even more horrific forces of chaos and bloodshed. ![]() The first two Gulf wars-Operation Desert Storm (the 1991 campaign to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait) and the 2003 US invasion of Iraq-ended in American “victories” that unleashed virulent strains of terrorism like ISIS, uprooted millions, and unsettled the Greater Middle East in disastrous ways. It was only the latest sign preceding President Trump’s Iran announcement that Washington was gearing up for the possibility of another interstate war in the Persian Gulf region. You can watch the interview in the video above, via CNN.The New York Times recently reported that US Army Special Forces were secretly aiding the Saudi Arabian military against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. ![]() Zakaria also spoke to others who played significant roles in the Iraq War, including Paul Bremer, the former presidential envoy to Iraq, and General David Petraeus. He also stated that ISIS originated in Syria, rather than Iraq, and that the totality of Western impact on the region has yet to be fully determined. “You can’t say those of us who removed Saddam in 2003 bear no responsibility for the situation in 2015,” Blair said. I think, even from today in 2015, it is better that he’s not there than that he is there.”īlair also acknowledged that there were “elements of truth” in the argument that the chaos caused by the war effort might have contributed to the rise of ISIS. Bush saw for destabilizing the Middle East, while only achieving uncertain gains for the War on Terror.Įven so, Blair impressed that “I find it hard to apologize for removing Saddam. I also apologise for some of the mistakes in planning and, certainly, our mistake in our understanding of what would happen once you removed the regime.”īlair’s long-term decision contributed to the unpopularity he saw in the U.K., for he faced the same questions George W. “Even though he used chemical weapons extensively,” Blair explained, “the program that we thought it was did not exist, so I can apologize for that. The Blair interview was part of a lengthy special hosted by Zakaria called Long Road to Hell: America in Iraq, airing on CNN Monday night at 9 pm EST.īlair said in the interview that while he did not regret helping to bring down Saddam Hussein, he was apologetic about how the effort was launched on the mistaken assumption that the regime possessed weapons of mass destruction. During an interview on CNN with Fareed Zakaria, Former Prime Minister Tony Blair was asked to look back on what he thought about leading Britain to join America in the 2003 campaign against Iraq.
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