Sir, - Toby Joyce (October 25th) does us a great service in elucidating the objective of joining PfP. It has nothing to do with keeping or making peace, but everything to do with joining NATO in its aggressive wars wherever they may take place in future, whether in China, Russia, India, North Korea, Iraq - wherever we are summoned to serve the masters' purpose.
If Ireland is the sixth biggest contributor to keeping peace under the UN flag, why should we undermine the UN by rejecting its flag for that of a military alliance of predominantly colonial and ex-colonial countries? - Yours, etc.,
Fernando Sadek, Cabinteely, Co Dublin.