Unjustified

Sir,- The air strikes by the U.S. and allies are totally unjustified. Modern war is not as romantic as seen on TV screens. It puts women, children and old people to extreme hardships. The strikes can create a few more terrorists.

Instead, the U.S. should join other nations to settle long pending problems in Palestine, Kurdistan and Kashmir by involving the native people.

R. V. Ramanamurthy,

Hyderabad

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Sir,- It is clear that America has not learnt its lessons even after the terrible tragedy confronting it after the September 11 attack. Nothing explains its unjust and unprincipled friendship with Pakistan, a country that is second only to Taliban-led Afghanistan in its practice of training, nurturing and sponsoring terrorism.

America should understand that undermining the security interests of India would only be detrimental to its own long-term security. India has the power, capability and resolve to defend itself from any international policy that is discriminatory, unjust and fails to recognise its due place in the comity of nations.

Sanjay Bhattacharya,

Pondicherry

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