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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/27/tony-blair-west-must-be-ready-to-deploy-ground-troops-against-isisFormer PM says allied countries risk facing terror attack of such size and horror as to make draconian security measures necessary
Tony Blair: west must be ready to deploy ground troops against Isis
Nicholas Watt Chief political correspondent
Sunday 27 March 2016 06.36 EDT
Britain and its western allies must be prepared to send ground troops to defeat Islamic State forces or risk a terror attack in Europe of such size and horror that draconian security measures would have to be introduced, Tony Blair has said.
In a lengthy article on the Brussels bombings, the former prime minister said local forces could be used against Isis in Iraq, Syria and Libya. But he said western ground forces would eventually be needed to defeat Isis as it sought to create a caliphate.
Blair wrote in the Sunday Times: We must build military capability able to confront and defeat the terrorists wherever they try to hold territory. This is not just about local forces. It is a challenge for the west. Ground forces are necessary to win this fight and ours are the most capable.
The allied countries which are carrying out airstrikes against Isis targets, including the UK and US, have so far not deployed ground forces beyond unannounced special forces to guide the bombers and troops that train Iraqi forces in combating Isis.
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dubya used Blair to 'prove' that we MUST to invade Iraq.
Stupid move, Tony.
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Tony Blair: west must be ready to deploy ground troops against Isis (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Mar 2016
OP
ISIS has lost 40% of their 2014 territory & their fighters are burned out drug addicts
underpants
Mar 2016
#2
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)1. You first Tony.
underpants
(182,904 posts)2. ISIS has lost 40% of their 2014 territory & their fighters are burned out drug addicts
bemildred
(90,061 posts)3. Shutup Tony, you've done enough already. nt