Letter: Collateral damage
To us, the RAF evokes the image of fighter pilots and the Battle of Britain; abroad it stands for wanton destruction and the pointless saturation-bombing of civilians. We protest that our brave bomber crews had a causality rate in the Second World War higher than any force other than the U-boats - but both groups were widely perceived as neo-terrorists.
After three months of shooting up the suburbs of Tripoli and other "targets", we are doing little more than shifting rubble and increasing our already deplorable rate of "collateral".
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Hide AdIn recent decades, we flattened the suburbs of Dresden, Baghdad, Belgrade and a hundred other cities and if this is all we can contribute to world peace, we should stay home.
DR JOHN CAMERON
Howard Place
St Andrews, Fife