Sir: James Fenton's article in the 1 May issue of
the Spectator expresses so clearly my own feelings, and I suspect echoes the thoughts of a good many more than 10 per cent of the population, if people were honest. It is quite possible to be a Conser- vative, a patriot and a sympathiser with the Falklanders' plight, and yet still have reser- vations about the justification of using military force in this case, and to have had reservations from the outset.
The reported wars in the South Atlantic can be well matched by the gigantic wave of jingoism in this country, but some people like to think for themselves, and they see that the situation only arose at all as a result of a blunder; and that to rejoice at the suc- cesses gained by our present course of ac- tion is inappropriate.
H.R. Kay
8 Dashwood Terrace, Banbury, Oxfordshire
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