Sir, - Last Tuesday's terrorist attack, with its disgusting contempt for life and human suffering, was an attack on all of humankind, and not just on the values held by the western world.
We owe it to the dead and to the survivors to ensure that this can never happen again by forging a world-wide alliance against terrorism. This alliance has to include the countries of the Middle East.
I hope our humanity has not been dragged so low by this incomprehensible act that the West will be goaded into an equal act of terrorism against more innocent people. - Yours, etc.,
Deirdre O'Leary, Highfield Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6.