Madam, - Two European towns have been in the news recently. Shannon is a stopover point for US military flights to Iraq and also welcomes planes transporting prisoners to outsourced American torture centres. The practice of torture is so dirty that it cannot be carried out in the US.
Södertälje in Sweden is home to most Iraqi Christian asylum seekers and has reached the stage where it cannot accept any more.
Shannon presumably makes money from trade with the US army and the various US agencies involved in torture. Södertälje gets nothing for its actions. Perhaps at some time in the future Ireland will reach a stage of political maturity - closer to Aitken than Ahern? - where it is in a position to help the victims of America's wars rather than offer shelter to its soldiers and torturers. - Is mise,
CATHAL RABBITTE,
Mumbai,
India.