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High stakes

Sir — With the war on Iraq imminent, India is struggling to respond to the situation. The political leadership has preferred to look the other way with the talks being concentrated on the strategic oil reserves than the war itself.

Why is the U.S. more determined to act against Iraq than North Korea, a country that has declared openly its ambition of acquiring weapons of mass destruction? Why not Pakistan, which helped North Korea in its dubious ambitions?

Disarming Iraq is just a pretext to achieve its larger geopolitical ambitions.

Gaining control of the oil reserves in the region is certainly one of the objectives but the more important one is to gain a foothold in West Asia. The stakes are high for the U.S.

Dinesh Viswanath,
New Delhi

* * * Sir, — Your Editorial `Insufficient evidence' (Feb.8) details the American failure to produce `irrefutable and undeniable proof' that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

All nations should unite to rein in the U.S. President, George W. Bush, who has only one ally, the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

C. R. Narayanan,
Cuddalore, T.N.

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