Blair wrong to urge the west to "reach out" to Putin in fight against Islamic extremists

Tony Blair is reported to be calling on the West to make "common cause with Putin" in the fight against radical Islam.

However, Blair has done more than anyone in Europe to encourage radical Islam by involving Britain in the second Gulf War. This was represented by radical Muslims as an attack on Islam, especially since the accusations that Iraq possessed "weapons of mass destruction" proved to be completely unfounded.

Putin's Russia has treated separatists in Islamic Chechnya very brutally. He is the very last person that we should be co-operating with.

I'm not sure that targeting "radical Islam", rather than Islamic extremists, is going to help win friends in the Muslim community either.

Alan Macro
Lib-Dem Councillor for Theale
West Berkshire Council

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