Iraq: The US Link

Date : 16 May 2004

To : The Editor, The Business

From : Nagindas Khajuria

Subject : IRAQ Wars

IRAQ WARS

Ditch the US link

Sir - I agree with your editorial ("Iraq: the uncomfortable truth" 18/19 April) that the Bush administration does not understand the long-term nature of the war against terrorism and is not willing to listen to seasoned advice from the British. Perhaps it is time to abandon the special relationship with the US that was born in 1945. It does not mean much based upon 60 years' experience, and the time may be ripe now to build a special relationship with Europe. With the letter, we have shared our civilization for 2000 years. The US has been following a unilateralist policy for over 25 years. It needs to be counter-balance by another bloc like the EU, but without the UK on its side, the EU does not stand a change to rise to the occasion.

It is the intelligence that is shared between Israel and US that probably brought about the Iraq war in the first place.

In the long term, unless the UN takes over and unless Resolution 242 of the United Nations is observed and implemented where Israel has to withdraw to pre-1967 borders, the situation could escalate into world war 3. The acronym MAD come to mind: mutually Assured Destruction. It is the Palestine issue that is the crux of the matter and the sooner this is understood the more peaceful the world will be.