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Iraq Chaos 'Has Made
World More Dangerous'

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels
The Telegraph - UK
9-30-4
 
A former top adviser to Tony Blair and the intellectual father of the Iraq war recanted yesterday, admitting that the removal of Saddam Hussein had made the world a more dangerous place.
 
Robert Cooper, a British diplomat who helped shape Mr Blair's global doctrine of humanitarian interventions, told the Dutch Volksrant newspaper that the region was sliding out of control.
 
"From a geo-political point of view, the chaos in Iraq is a greater risk for us than it was under Saddam Hussein," he said.
 
"The majority may say now, yes, we prefer the current situation than under Saddam Hussein but what will happen if this continues for another year?
 
"The nightmare is the combination of terrorists and weapons of mass destruction."
 
Mr Cooper, who is now the European Union's director-general of foreign policy, has advocated a muscular "liberal imperialism" along Gladstonian lines led by Brussels, seeing his mission as "spreading civilisation and creating good government".
 
In March 2002 he issued a pamphlet seen as the founding text of the wars in Iraq and Afghansistan, warning that the West had to act against terrorists exploiting states outside the international order.
 
"If they become too dangerous for established states to tolerate, it is possible to imagine a defensive imperialism," he said.
 
"What is needed is a new kind of imperialism, one acceptable to a world of human rights and cosmopolitan values.
 
"The post-modern EU offers a vision of co-operative empire. Like Rome, this commonwealth would provide its citizens with some of its laws, some coins and the occasional road. That perhaps is the vision."
 
Mr Cooper was Mr Blair's special envoy to Afghanistan during the first stage of the war against al-Qa'eda.
 
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