Sir, – In a very Western style, your Editorial (August 24th) credits the 1925 Geneva convention on chemical weapons for preventing the use of such weapons, in general, since the first World War. You then cite two Arabic countries, Iraq and Syria, as having broken this agreement.
However, I would imagine the millions of Jews, disabled, gypsies, etc, murdered by Zyklon-B during the second World War, might see their own deaths as a “chemical event”. So too might the victims of RAF incendiary bombs, nuclear bombs or Napalm suggest they were no longer in existence due to chemistry.
Morally, the West has managed to differentiate between methods of inflicting death upon civilians. The child victims of drone strikes would have been impressed. – Yours, etc,
EUGENE TANNAM,
Monalea Park,
Firhouse, Dublin 24.