Even the neocons have turned against wars in the Middle East (opens in new tab)

Millions have died as a result of disastrous US-led military adventurism. But there have been no consequences for those who championed it for so longWhat an admission. “The threat of terrorism” from the Middle East, an influential US columnist wrote a fortnight ago, “was a consequence of American involvement, not the reason for it”. If the US had “not been deeply and consistently involved in the Muslim world since the 1940s,” he added, “Islamic militants would have little interest in attackin...