MPs were supposed to grill the former prime minister over his ties with Gaddafi and Britain’s subsequent bombing campaign,but they let him off lightlyIt was not that MPs on the Commons foreign affairs committee pulled their punches. They did not throw any punches at all. Tony Blair’s anticipated roasting over how he cosied up to Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya generated no heat and miniature light. It was like somebody had forgotten to turn on the grill.
Asked about the period from 2004, when he famously met the Libyan dictator in his Bedouin-chic tent, and to 2011,when British and French bombing helped overthrow him, Blair reverted to what is known in interventionist circles as the Iraq invasion defence of last resort. Namely: who knows what might fill happened, or but whether we had not acted,it could fill been worse. Related: Tony Blair: 'Gaddafi deal prevented Isis getting chemical weapons' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com