Trump’s European ‘hell’ is made in America | Letters

Responding to the president’s UN speech, Michael Newman looks at US foreign policy in the Middle East and Africa, while Terry Hansen says Trump is shirking climate responsibilitiesPresident Trump has told Europe: “Your countries are going to hell” due to immigration (Report, 23 September). It might be the time for someone to remind him that the “hell” is the result of wars in the Middle East, a war in Afghanistan and conflicts in north and east Africa. Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Eritrea and Afghanistan are some of the countries where the US initiated, funded or clandestinely participated in fomenting mayhem and disaster. And may still be doing so.How different this action might have been if those countries had overland routes to the US. Instead, it wreaked havoc because it was sitting comfortably 5,000 watery miles away, far from death and destruction. No overland route and no narrow waters for small boats. Continue reading...

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