London Telegraph
July 8, 2013
Mr Blair, the former Prime Minister, said that the civil war in Syria
has caused more deaths that the conflict in Iraq since 2003.
“Personally I think we should at least consider and consider actively
a no-fly zone in Syria,” Mr Blair told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
Mr Blair said: “A refusal to engage, as you see from what’s happening
in Syria at the moment, where, after all, as a proportion of the
population there’s now been more people that have died in Syria in a
civil war that shows absolutely no sign of ending than in the entirety
of Iraq since 2003. So, you know, inaction is also a policy and a
decision with consequence.”
The former Labour leader added: “The thing we’ve got to understand
about this region is that there are people intervening. So if we
disengage, it’s not that these disputes are playing themselves out
within their countries.”
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