Sir, – The real question should really be should Nato now join us? In the last 60 years our Defence Forces and Garda Síochána have served in trouble spots all over the world with the UN, EU and alongside Nato. They have helped bring a bit of security and normality to the lives on thousands of beleaguered people and have done so with a minimum loss of life and certainly without “collateral damage”. They have done so with skill, patience and courage in often imperfect, thankless under-resourced missions in places the rest of the world has forgotten.
What our tiny Army achieves outside Nato is of infinitely more value to the security of the world and the lives of ordinary people than what an understrength, under equipped brigade could achieve within it. – Yours, etc,
BEN FEHILY,
Inchicore,
Dublin 8.