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Here we go again: the drumbeat for sending troops back to Iraq has begun

Thought ‘humanitarian intervention’ was dead and buried? No such luck. It’s taking pride of place in the American election

29 August 2015

9:00 AM

29 August 2015

9:00 AM

Is it going to happen again? Will the next 12 months really see western armies return to Iraq?

Last year was meant to signal an end to wars of intervention that dominated the world stage at the turn of the 21st century, attacks by powerful western states mostly against weak Muslim ones.

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Simon Jenkins’s Mission Accomplished? The Crisis of International Intervention is published next month.Simon Jenkins is a former editor of the Times and the London Evening Standard, and a columnist for the Guardian.

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