Madam, - President Bush (World News, September 9th) again refers to the "civilised world".
I presume he includes the US.
George Clemenceau once described the US as the only nation to have gone "directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation".
He had a point. - Yours, etc.,
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KIERAN McCARTHY, Lissadell Avenue, Powerscourt Lawns, Waterford.