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Is it going to happen again? Will the next 12 months really see western armies return to Iraq?
Last year was meant to signal an end to wars of intervention that dominated the world stage at the turn of the 21st century, attacks by powerful western states mostly against weak Muslim ones.
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Simon Jenkins’s Mission Accomplished? The Crisis of International Intervention is published next month.Simon Jenkins is a former editor of the Times and the London Evening Standard, and a columnist for the Guardian.
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