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Tony Blair: Refusal to intervene in Syria to blame for Iraq crisis

In an essay issued Sunday, Blair called for Western countries to intervene in Syria, though he did not specify how.

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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., in 2013. Blair said the West's failure to intervene in Syria is to blame for the violent insurgency in neighboring Iraq 鈥� not the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
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Former British Prime Minister聽Tony聽Blair聽says the West's failure to intervene in Syria is to blame for the violent insurgency in neighboring聽Iraq聽鈥� not the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

In an essay issued Sunday,聽Blair聽called for Western countries to intervene in Syria, though he did not specify how. He wrote that extremists "have to be countered hard" wherever they are fighting.

Blair聽led Britain to join the U.S.-led intervention in 2003, and is now a Middle East peace envoy. He rejected as "simply not credible" arguments by critics who claim聽Iraq聽would be stable today had the invasion not happened.

Former U.K. ambassador Christopher Meyer said聽Blair聽was wrong, and that the campaign against Saddam was a significant reason for the sectarian violence in聽Iraq.

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