Dear Sir, READING Mr Marks' letter to the editor in Tuesday's Bulletin (17th July), I realized that while Mr Marks and all Americans have a perfectly legitimate right to feel upset and offended by what they perceive to be unrelenting criticism of their nation and its foreign policy, I am quite tired of the old song one tends to get in reply of The American people have bailed Europe out of two World Wars. It was a great American, Abraham Lincoln, who said that The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. If from this I may extrapolate a similar logic, then it might be said that the heroism of the past is no excuse for the folly of the present, and claiming so is no substitute for real discussion on the woes of the age.
Past and present
24/07/2013 00:00
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