THE point Mr Westmoreland was making by comparing the bombing of Dresden and the current wars in the Middle East is the futility of organised killing of “the enemy”.
Your readers W.J . Drummond, J. Beisly and P.Roe (Letters, February 24) are unwilling to consider that the Isis fighters also justify their killing of non-combatants on the grounds that they are fighting for freedom. A different freedom and not one your correspondents subscribe to, but the misery caused by the killing is identical.
The Dresden fire bombing occurred just 20 or so years after the self-evident futility of the mass killing of “the war to end all wars”. Let us hope that the people of the Middle East solve their problems diplomatically and are spared a succession of futile wars.
Maurice Vassie, Deighton, York.
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