Let history tell the real story of US role in Iraq

JOE Higgins MEP of the Peace and Neutrality Alliance needs a better sense of history (‘Disastrous war has done untold damage to civilians’, March 20).

We Americans did greatest damage to Japan and to Germany in World War II. Now it seems these these two countries are high-standing members of the UN and good friends of America as democratic societies.

If history tells the story, it seems being an American adversary is not all that bad. If we are to judge the effects of the Iraq invasion we need to do two things – let history tell the story and listen to the Iraqi people, not to very opinionated “peace and neutrality” judges.

In his conclusion, Mr Higgins gets a bit closer to the truth when he says there is a sign of a new era opening up for people of Iraq, when they could bring their huge natural resources under democratic control and ownership of the majority. If the war helped to accomplish that, what more can be said?

Joyce Anderson Gleasure

Kildorrery

Co Cork