Luke Broadwater: The making of Iraq, and the Iraq war

Citizens concerned with the ongoing violence in the Middle East are right to blame Western leaders for the mess that is modern-day Iraq. They’ve just been blaming the wrong men.

Long before the world had heard of Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld, it was a team of British politicians — named Arnold Wilson, Gertrude Bell and Prime Minister Lloyd George — who set Iraq on the path of instability that we see today.