Article 2QT9H Corbyn is right: of course Manchester was linked to British foreign policy | Simon Jenkins

Corbyn is right: of course Manchester was linked to British foreign policy | Simon Jenkins

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Simon Jenkins
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We committed armed aggression against sovereign peoples who had not attacked us, claiming our motive was 'to keep terror off the streets of Britain'

Jeremy Corbyn is perfectly right to relate this week's Manchester terrorist atrocity to British foreign policy in the Middle East. Whenever Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron struggled to explain why British blood and finance had to go on toppling regimes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, they were explicit: it was "to prevent terrorism in the streets of Britain". The reason was given over and again: to suppress militant Islam.

When that policy clearly leads to an increase in Islamist terrorism, we are entitled to agree with Corbyn that it has "simply failed". Regimes were indeed toppled. Tens of thousands died, many of them civilians every bit as innocent as Manchester's victims. Terrorism has not stopped.

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