THOSE sit-at-home war apologists and cheerleaders like Christopher Hitchins and David Aaronovitch, among others, clearly have never been in a combat zone.

All of them are ready to fight to the last drop of somebody else’s blood, all of them are wilfully ignorant of international law – “to initiate a war of aggression is the supreme international crime that no political or economic situation can justify.” This was the judgement of the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal against the Nazis, many of whom ended up on the end of a rope. The instigators of the Middle East wars of aggression must think themselves lucky to have evaded the same fate, and I very much doubt it.

Mr. T. King Five Locks Road Cwmbran