For the last 20 years, most people in the United States and Europe have comfortably taken it for granted that former US president George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair committed a dreadful mistake when they ordered their armed forces to invade Iraq. They stand accused of creating a situation that led to the appearance of the terrorist Islamic State and other equally murderous groupings that many young Muslims raised in Europe would find so appealing that they became willing to butcher their presumed compatriots on its behalf.
Since then, the Western consensus has been that regime change, let alone nation-building, is a fool’s game and that it would have been far better for everyone if the North Americans and British had left Saddam Hussein in charge of his notoriously fractious country and that – unless he tried to annex another of his neighbours – they had limited themselves to prodding him now and then with economic sanctions, hu
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