JULIAN Thake described my recent letter as "labouring a point for an argument." I don't know about that but is that any worse than someone who prevaricate in an argument, rather than addressing it (You Say, April 21).
He also insinuated that I lowered the tone of the argument, by asking him how he could justify his pro-war views with his Christian belief.
Again, Mr Thake chose instead to sidestep my question by quoting Edmund Burke.
Of course, Edmund Burke was a clever 18th Century Irish politician and philosopher, but ultimately he was no Jesus Christ, and I fail to see where the quote by Mr Thake fits in with say, the Sermon on the Mount.
Surely true Christians are not meant to distort or dilute Christ's teachings to suit their argument?
I recommend Mr Thake to acquaint himself with John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and see the folly of his argument.
As for my solution to the Iraq issue - I said it once before - I do not have one because I am no politician or militarist.
However, isn't it strange how the equally evil regime of Russia, the dreaded Berlin Wall and the bloody South African apartheid government eventually collapsed without the need of an American-led military intervention.
L SPITERI,
Worcester.
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