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10 February 2012
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World War I
Iraq War
Blair, blinded by the Enlightenment
At the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair expressed no regrets over his decision to join the war in Iraq. Bruce Anderson in the Independent argues that he was driven by a typical delusion of Enlightenment thinking, that it is possible to reshape human nature and the world in the West’s image.
1 February 2010
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The Independent
London
France-Germany
Burying the hatchet
November 11th – commemorating the French victory over Germany in World War I – is now to become a Franco-German holiday. Yet another step towards closer amity between the two big European nations, heralds the press on either side of the Rhine.
11 November 2009
Presseurop
At the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair expressed no regrets over his decision to join the war in Iraq. Bruce Anderson in the Independent argues that he was driven by a typical delusion of Enlightenment thinking, that it is possible to reshape human nature and the world in the West’s image. 
November 11th – commemorating the French victory over Germany in World War I – is now to become a Franco-German holiday. Yet another step towards closer amity between the two big European nations, heralds the press on either side of the Rhine.