Madam, - Please don't scrap Doonesbury. In recent times I have often wondered how on earth the voice and the conscience of such a wonderful country as the US could have changed so much since my student days in St Louis in the late 1960s.
As I observed the horrifying pictures of the detainees in Guantanamo Bay, and listened to the ever-increasing beat of the war drums, and pondered on the significance of words like "rendition", I feared that today's US citizens had entirely lost the voice of equality and the democratic conscience for which I have long admired them.
But I consoled myself with the knowledge that a country where Doonesburyis syndicated on a daily basis in many newspapers can't possibly be that bad. To me, Doonesburyhas always been the symbol of hope that some day, in the not so distant future, the voice of the decent people in America will cry "Stop" to what is happening in Guantanamo Bay.
- Yours, etc,
ROBERT HAYES-McCOY, Lea Road, Sandymount, Dublin 4.
Madam, - I agree with Terry Crawford (December 14th). Dump Doonesburybut please bring back either Asterixor Tintin.
- Yours, etc,
JAMES BOYD, Taghmon, Co. Wexford.
Madam, - Only for the rational thoughts of Gary Trudeau and DoonesburyI might think that all Americans had been subsumed into the madness of President George!
- Yours, etc,
KEITH NOLAN, Caldragh, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim.