There are dangers to Western retreat from international engagement, the former foreign secretary has said
Former foreign secretary David Miliband said there were “huge risks” to Western retreat from international engagement Photo: PAUL GROVER FOR THE TELEGRAPH
By Jon Swaine, New York
9:12PM BST 10 Oct 2013
Britain and the US must not be “imprisoned” by the experience of war in Iraq and cannot focus on domestic problems at the expense of their overseas responsibilities, David Miliband has warned.
Speaking after British intervention in Syria was effectively thwarted by his brother Ed, the former foreign secretary said there were “huge risks” to Western retreat from international engagement.
“I believe very profoundly that in an interdependent world, you have to do domestic policy, but you have to do foreign policy as well,” he told The Daily Telegraph.
Mr Miliband, now the president of the International Rescue Committee, stopped short of calling for war on Bashar al-Assad’s regime to end a civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people. “We’ve got people on the ground, not just in Syria but in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq,” he told a foreign policy discussion in Manhattan. “I’ve got people who are in danger.”
However, in attempting to sum up “what I believe without crossing the line”, he quoted Frederick The Great, saying: “Diplomacy without weapons is like music without instruments”.
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A proposal by David Cameron for Britain to join the United States in intervening in Syria after August’s chemical weapons massacre in a Damascus suburb was blocked by Labour in a Commons vote.
Barack Obama soon dropped his own plans for missile strikes following the emergence of substantial opposition in Congress and in public opinion polls.
David Miliband conceded the experience of the Iraq war was partly to blame for public reluctance to become involved. However, he said: “We should learn from Iraq, but not be imprisoned by it”.
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However, in attempting to sum up “what I believe without crossing the line”, he quoted Frederick The Great, saying: “Diplomacy without weapons is like music without instruments”.
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