Sir, - Voices are being raised in complaint that the Americans, having pulverised Afghanistan from a great height, are not going to stick around to put the country back together again. Of course not: they have work to do. This is a war against global terrorism, isn't it?
So the United States is going to spit on its hands and lay straight into FARC in Columbia, ETA in Spain, the rebels in Algeria, the terrorists in Corsica, the slaughterers too numerous to mention in West and Central Africa, the Kashmiri Freedom Fighters, not to mention the Palestinians or, alternatively, the Israelis.
Or am I being just a touch naive? - Yours, etc.,
Charles Clarke, Magherydogherty Road, Markethill, Armagh.