Tony Blair's illogical urge

Tony Blair is at it again. In The Daily Star's report on what the former prime minister of the UK has written on his website, it appears the hawkish Blair, now special Middle East envoy, is calling for drones and air strikes on portions of Iraq. Placing this man as an envoy to the Middle East is like putting a wolf in charge of the sheep pastures.
The British have a dreadful record in creating the very problems that Blair now wishes to address. In the early part of the 20th century, three events led to the creation of much of the world's problems today. The establishment of the Anglo-Persian oil company (which eventually morphed into the giant British Petroleum) in 1908, by deceiving and buying out oil concessions from the Qajar Shahs of Iran; the Balfour Declaration of 1917 in which the British foreign secretary agreed to support the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine; and the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 between the British and French governments, in which the fate of the Arab lands formerly controlled by the Ottoman Empire, was to be determined after the First World War and mandated into British and French spheres of influence.
The world thinks highly of British diplomacy. In fact it is more aptly described as British duplicity. Sadly, in their imperial mode, they thought nothing of what the future might bring as they arbitrarily sought to plunder the resources of the Arab world. And the plundering continues, with Mr. Tony Blair, the heir to all those who preceded him in that endeavour.
Syed Hamde Ali
The Nawab Palace
Bogra