As a riposte to Terry Crawford-Browne’s predictable rant against the new security pact between the US, UK and Australia (“War business grinds on”, September 19), I can do no better than quote US comedian Jack Handey, who said: “I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.”
As the Roman general Vegetius put it: Si vis pacem, para bellum — if you want peace, prepare for war.
Richard McNeill
Noordhoek
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