His feedback to Sky’s breakfast presenter Anna Jones come following the collapse of the Bashar al Assad regime within the area.
Again in 2013, when Mr Miliband was Labour chief, UK MPs voted in opposition to taking army motion in Syria within the wake of Assad utilizing chemical weapons in opposition to his personal folks.
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MPs in 2013 got a free vote – with no occasion line imposed – however Mr Miliband was a vocal opponent of the motion, claiming the plans had been “ill-thought out” and would make issues worse.
The Commons voted in opposition to taking motion.
He stated: “No, I don’t.”
The power secretary added he welcomed the autumn of Assad.
He added: “Back in 2013, we were confronted with whether we should have a one-off – or potential one-off – bombing of Syria.
“However there was no plan for what this British involvement would imply.
“Where it would lead, and what the consequences would be.
“And I consider that within the gentle of the Iraq Warfare, we might by no means ship British troops again into fight except we had been completely clear about what our plan was, together with what an exit technique was.
“Now, to those people who say that President Assad would have fallen if we bombed him in 2013, that’s obviously wrong, because President Trump bombed President Assad in 2017 and 2018, so he didn’t fall.
“So I welcome the autumn of a brutal dictator.
“But I think the view that some people seem to be expressing about history is just wrong.”
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Some have argued inaction in 2013 gave confidence to dictators like Assad – and even Vladimir Putin – to take army motion in opposition to different nations.
Requested about this, Mr Miliband once more disagreed, saying: “I think it’s very easy for people to say that the answer to the problems of the world is British military intervention.”
Mr Miliband added: “I took the decisions I did because the British involvement in Iraq led to the deaths of our troops and was rightly, in my view, seen as a very serious error.
“And so with out re-going over all of that historical past, I believe we drew the fitting classes from there.”
