(National-UAE) Britain’s new national security adviser argued that the West should negotiate with ISIS extremists to bring peace to the Middle East.
Jonathan Powell, who was former prime minister Tony Blair’s chief of staff, was a leading player in bringing a peace agreement to Northern Ireland after he engaged in long-running talks with the Provisional IRA, a terrorist organisation.
But the man appointed as Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s senior adviser on shaping Britain’s foreign policy stated in 2014, when ISIS was at the height of its terrorism campaign, the need to engage in diplomacy.
“While ISIS may not want to talk to us at the moment, we need to start building a channel to them, as we did with the IRA in 1972, so we can communicate,” he wrote in the Guardian.
