Madam, - Tony Allwright is right (February 26th) to repudiate Tony Blair's claim that Washington is not planning an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, but he is wrong to suppose that such an attack is justified on any reasonable basis.
We have seen from the invasion of Iraq that US military action has been disastrous in terms of the resultant mayhem and the numbers of Iraqi people dead.
While the proliferation of nuclear weapons cannot be allowed, the US strategy of so-called preventive action is equally unacceptable. The Middle East is far too explosive an area for Washington to be allowed to further exercise its unilateral muscle to further its own military strategy. - Yours, etc,
BRENDAN BUTLER,
NGO Peace Alliance,
Phibsborough Road,
Dublin 7.