Jon Swaine
The Telegraph
April 7, 2011
After a brief honeymoon following the successful mission to protect Kosovo in 1999, it seemed the Blairite era of “liberal interventionism” had been buried along with tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
The chaos after the steamrollering of the UN Security Council by Tony Blair and George W. Bush in 2002-03 seemed likely to usher in a new period of isolationism.
Barack Obama swept to power in 2008 on a wave of anti-war sentiment, while David Cameron entered Downing Street last year insisting that the West “can’t drop democracy from 40,000ft”.
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