Should the West rely on Iran in Iraq?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

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🗓️ 17 June 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Tim Montgomerie is joined by Melanie Phillips, Alice Thomson and Roger Alton.Melanie PhillipsPeople say the Iraq debacle has happened because we went in and got rid of strong man Saddam. On the contrary, it's because the US and UK got out of Iraq, allowing Maliki to alienate the Sunnis. Leaving a strong man in place hasn't worked in Syria, and Saddam would have run his own jihadi gangs. This chaos directly threatens the West, as did Saddam, but the main focus should be on the head of the snake, Iran.Alice ThomsonThe real battle in education is not between Dominic Cummings and David Cameron whom he tells Rachel Sylvester and me is like "a sphinx without a riddle" but between Michael Gove and The Blob . The Education Secretary is determined to face down the trendy modernists who want all children making paper mâché puppets and set schools free while promoting academic rigour, he's right. Roger AltonMany people, not always women - are quite happy to say "I don't know anything about football" as if...

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0:59.6	My name is Tim Montgomery.
1:01.1	And this week I'm joined by two Times columnist Melanie Phillips and Alice
1:05.2	Thompson and also by the executive editor of the Times making his podcast debut with us,
1:10.9	Roger Alton. People say the debacle in Iraq has happened because we went in and got rid of
1:17.5	strong man Saddam Hussein, but I think on the contrary, it's because the United States
1:22.4	and the United Kingdom got out of Iraq, thus allowing its
1:25.8	Shia Prime Minister Maliki to alienate the Sunnis.
1:29.3	Leaving a strong man in place hasn't worked in Syria, Saddam if left in place would probably be running
1:34.9	his own jihadi gangs today. This chaos today in Iraq directly threatens the West as
1:40.5	did Saddam himself but I believe that now the main focus should be
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