HEAR ALL SIDES: Letters to the Editor
THIS Easter - as last Christmas - there are Christian services in Aleppo in Syria where the Assad government with Russia's help has freed the area of the murderous anti-Christian bigotry of Isis.
But the boneheads in London and Washington continue to attack Assad - giving encouragement to the Islamist extremists who have destroyed large parts of Iraq and Syria.
Where the West's intervention succeeded - in Libya - with David Cameron hailing victory (!) chaos now reigns, the slave trade is back and Isis has gained a foothold.
Rodney Atkinson, Stocksfield
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