Britain’s Miliband said ‘war on terror’ was wrong
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Thursday the notion of a “war on terror” was “misleading and mistaken”, in an outspoken critique of a key policy of outgoing US President George W. Bush. Writing in the Guardian, Miliband said the phrase gave the idea of a unified enemy where none existed, and also encouraged a primarily military response to problems that top generals admitted the West could not “kill its way out of”. The article appears to be a comprehensive attempt to
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