The self-styled crusader for Western democracy and liberal interventionism is reduced to pontificating on how to tackle an Islamist terror threat that he helped exacerbate and spread.
In Britain and other countries, denunciations of Islamic "extremism" and non-existent plots, along with dog-whistle talk about Christianity, is feeding fear and hatred that will be with us for years to come.
Unlike the Boston Marathon, there is no annual commemoration for the Iraqi victims of the almost daily terror bombings, resulting from the lethal forces unleashed by the Bush-Blair invasion of Iraq.
Different though Ukraine is from Iraq and Afghanistan there are some ominous similarities in the Western involvement in all three countries, says Patrick Cockburn
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