Malcolm Pittock's letter was as offensive as it was
callously untruthful. His naming of our
recent interventions as "terrorist wars" makes it sound as though our
objectives were the same as those of terrorists we oppose. On this point he is wrong and I am sure he
knows it. I need remind him that the war
in Afghanistan happened in response to the 9/11 attacks only after the Taliban
refused to turn over the plotters of those attacks. The Taliban implausibly thought it was good
enough for them to be tried by their courts.
Pittock's letter is symptomatic of the poisonous allure of Corbyn's brand
of appeasement, pushing fanatics of his creed to revise history to support
their arguments.
Regards
Zachary Barker
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