"Criminal folly with global implications" Image: Martin H. Simon/CNP/ABACA/ABACA/PA Images. All rights reserved.
In 2003, as United States troops arrived “at the gates of Baghdad”, openDemocracy’s prescient columnist Paul Rogers predicted a 30 years’ war. He warned that “the US’s current global ambitions guarantee bitter and prolonged conflict in the Middle East and beyond”. Along with Rogers, the late Fred Halliday emphasised that Iran was bound to be the strategic victor of the United States’ conquest of Iraq.
For Trump to abandon rather than build on the deal is a criminal folly with global implications
