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New colonial order?

Sir, — The Anglo-American alliance is showing an unseemly haste in going to war with Iraq on the basis of its own evidence presented as "incontrovertible fact". The accuser, the judge and the executioner in this case are the same. Nations "cooperating" with their silence are abetting a new global order that pays scant respect to international law and allows interference of any country if its interests are at stake in the affairs of any sovereign country with or without U.N. sanction.

The post-Cold War world seems to be regressing to the pre-World War I world, one in which imperialism and colonialism flourished and liberty, fraternity and equality were interpreted in terms of the imperialist-colonialist dominance.

Jacob George Kanjirappallil,
Changanacherry, Kerala

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Sir, — It now appears certain that the U.S. and Britain and their allies would launch a war against Iraq for its possession of weapons of mass destruction. Is it fair to condemn and seek the elimination of such weapons possessed by Iraq in the name of the "international community" while much more devastating weapons of mass destruction are in the arsenal of countries such as the U.S., the U.K., France, Russia and China?

C.P.N. Sinha,
Patna

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