Sir, - The problem facing society today is not how to defeat terrorism as much as how to eliminate the causes of terrorism.
A person does not become a terrorist for no reason at all. Terrorism is caused by the gross mistreatment of one community by another. To try to eliminate it by mere force is simply sowing "dragon's teeth".
Take the case of an eight-year-old Palestinian boy, who, when interviewed by the press after seeing his mother killed, vowed to grow up to be a suicide bomber. The lesson to be learned from this is that might does not make right. - Yours etc.,
PATRICIA McMAHON,
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Rye Hill,
Bally,
Dublin.