Letter: Military blunder

The New Labourites in their days in student politics fought like ferrets in a sack and the only thing uniting them was their utter contempt for and ignorance of all things military. It was, therefore, only to be expected that Tony Blair would be unaware that the reason the bar for resort to military action is set so high is that wars always go wrong.

He pledged unquestioning support to US president George Bush in his reckless over-reaction to 9/11 and helped to invade a country that had nothing to do - at that time - with al-Qaeda.

Now WikiLeaks has laid bare the arrogance with which he dismissed Colin Powell's warnings of power vacuums, sectarian strife and breakdowns in civil order. Blair is clearly shown aiding and abetting America in one of the greatest foreign-policy blunders in its history.

JOHN CAMERON

Howard Place

St Andrews, Fife