As the US and British military assault on Fallujah escalates, a former top foreign policy adviser to PM Tony Blair has voiced serious concerns about the continuing Iraq conflict. He has also declared that environmental disaster is a greater global threat than terrorism.
Sir Stephen Wall, who is now principal adviser to Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, said yesterday that
‘it should not have been impossible to reach a common European view on Iraq before Britain became committed to an unstoppable course of action on the part of the United States.’Speaking at the prestigious Royal Institute for International Affairs in Chatham House, London, Sir Stephen went on:
‘I believe that, in Britain, we allowed our judgement of the dire consequences of inaction to override our judgement of the even more dire consequences of parting from the rule of law.’He added:
‘We have to be firm in our adherence to that rule of law, even if it sometimes means parting company with the United States and adhering to the United Nations as the only defence against the rule of might that we have.’
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