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The case for war

From Nigel Famdale Sir: Frank Johnson, in his otherwise astute article on Iraq, argues that only the Left believes in going to war against horrible regimes that do not threaten British national interest (Shared opinion, 1 May). I would have thought that the instinct to overthrow brutal tyrants was a moral one which transcended party politics. Nevertheless, he also argues that the Right should only go to war 'when a horrible regime threatens Britain, as Saddam's, with his lack of weapons of mass destruction, did not'. Surely the point is that we did not know that it did not, though the intelligence suggested that it did, and after 9/11 the risk of waiting to find out if it did or did not suddenly seemed too great.

Nigel Farndale

Landon SW4

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