Letter: Iraq's arms suppliers
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Your support makes all the difference.IT has finally come out in the open. The US may decide to attack Iraq if that suits its "national interests" ("Go-ahead for peace mission", 18 February), regardless of whether this is consistent with what has been decided by UN resolutions, or in fact with international laws of engagement, not to speak of more general laws of civilisation.
How can this arrogance be allowed? If the US has discarded even the semblance of an international justification to its policy of commercial and military preponderance in the region, regardless of the fact that none of the countries directly involved support its aggressive stance, it must feel totally secure in its dominant position. A sad thought, indeed, for any who would like to think that there is something more to life than the American Dream.
BRANDINO RANGONI
London SW4
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