To: et.letters@telegraph.co.uk
Re: Green Defence spokesperson turns reality on its head and sides with Milosevic Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 |
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Dear Sir, I am writing in response to Saturday's letter from Spencer Fitz-Gibbon, Defence spokesperson of the England & Wales Green Party (Uncle Sam is psychotic, Feedback, 3 April 1999) 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
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
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.
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