Iraq war ‘a mistake’ says former UK chief of staff

Iraq war ‘a mistake’ says former chief of staff - The Scotsman
General Lord Richards of Herstmonceux, who was chief of the defence staff until last year, also criticised Western efforts to intervene in Syria, saying they had been just enough to keep the civil war alive without actually resolving the conflict, allowing it to spread into Iraq.
He warned that more action was needed to prevent the latest unrest in the region radicalising a new generation of young Muslims in the UK.
In an interview with Sky News, Lord Richards said that the rise of the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) was a direct consequence of the invasion of Iraq in 2003.