IT is truly tragic to see people using the atrocities in Paris to excuse further carnage in Iraq and Syria.

Little wonder that David Cameron and his cronies find this a comfortable environment in which to suggest the way to protect us from attacks is to increase the process that encourages them.

Britain, at the behest of its masters in the White House, has been bombing Islamic nations intermittently for 25 years.

France has been less committed, but has bombed Iraq and Syria much more eagerly over recent years as well as running long term military campaigns in much of North Africa.

If we could only learn from history. After the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, the Christian community of Northern Ireland exploded 10,000 bombs in the UK at locations as sensitive as the Houses of Parliament, the Conservative Party Conference and 10 Downing Street.

Do we really wish to give the relatively peaceful adherents of a different religion another 5,000 reasons to follow that example?

Roger Westmoreland, York