I am particularly outraged at the absurdities expressed in Dr Fitz-Gibbon's letter because I am myself a member of the Green Party, albeit in Germany, where I live. Unfortunately there are many German
Green with similar views that turn reality on its head and make aggressors out of those, such as President Clinton and Prime Minister Blair, who are courageously pursuing a just peace settlement for Kosovo. I am sure he means well, but he is the kind of person who I can image trying to organise a hunger strike among the inmates of Auschwitz to press home their demands for better working conditions. It is hard to believe that anyone, let alone some one in his position, can have such a
perverted view of reality.

The West tried repeatedly to obtain a negotiated peace in Bosnia for more than two years, while the Serbs raped, murdered and carried out ethnic cleansing. Only when Nato intervened militarily was there an end to Serb aggression - after a quarter of a million people had lost their lives and countless others had been raped or driven from their homes. In Kosovo the West rightly decided to make a stand against aggressive and brutal Serb nationalism which, as recent events have clearly shown, is
aimed at driving the Kosovar Albanians from their homes and establishing Kosovo as a purely Serb province.  The West has bent over backwards trying to accommodate the Serbs and achieve a just, negotiated peace. But they were not interested. They want the Albanians out. A Nato peacekeeping force would have prevented it. That is why they wouldn't sign up to the Rambouillet agreement.
The West hoped that, as in the past, the threat of force would be enough to persuade Milosevic to sign the Rambouillet agreement. They were disappointed. They then hoped that a few bombs would do the trick, and again they were disappointed. Instead of being cowed, Milosevic has used the Nato attacks as a pretext for undertaking ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. What he had no doubt intended to achieve over a number of years he is now attempting to do in a matter of days.

It is not the sort of language that is usually appropriate, and should not be used lightly, but Mr Blair is right when he says "this is no longer just a military conflict, it is a battle between good and evil." It is not only in our long-term interests, we have a duty to God - or whatever you happen to believe in - to resist and put right the evil that Milosevic is now perpetrating.

America and her Nato allies are not saints and do not always do the right thing. But in Kosovo they are doing their best. It was no different to when we were fighting Hitler's Germany.

Nato deserves our full support. If there is anything to criticise, as I am sure there will be, we should wait until the conflict is over and Nato has performed its honourable and very necessary task. I abhor the attitude of those, like Dr Fitz-Gibbon, who would seek to undermine Nato's  morale by turning reality on its head, and who effectively put themselves on the side of the real aggressor.