Sunday, February 24, 2013

IoS letters, emails & online postings (24 February 2013)

<p>There are many around the world who want the criminals involved brought before the International Court of Justice to answer for the million dead. Nor is it the worst such crime since Suez. It is immeasurably worse than Suez by virtue of the numbers dead, the ruination of a great and historic land, the alienation of a vast region and proud peoples.</p><p>Jim McCluskey</p><p>Twickenham, Middlesex</p><p>Menzies Campbell makes a fair point about those who marched to stop the Iraq war in February 2003. The war was not stopped, but politicians' assumptions of automatic public support for wars were challenged and remain so. Even so, as Campbell must know, the politician's trade involves finding ways to do things that may appear to be unpopular. So while he says no government could go to war without securing a parliamentary vote in favour, in fact this is exactly what David Cameron has done in Mali by the simple device of not calling it a war.</p><p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letters/ios-letters-emails--online-postings-24-february-2013-8508238.html">Keep reading...</a></p>

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