Destroy and rebuild

THE EDITOR: They denude a people in order to clothe them. They create conditions of starvation in a country so that they can feed its people.

They deliberately and maliciously wound a people so that they can tend to their wounds. They destroy a nation with weapons of mass destruction, causing the death of multitudes in that nation only so that they can bury them. They create and cause havoc to the infrastructure of a nation so that their friends and associates can rebuild what they themselves have destroyed. They do this all in the name of humanitarianism, democracy and concern for the welfare of the very persons they have wounded, killed and made destitute and homeless. They do not do all the above things because of greed, power, self centred concerns and revenge.

VERNE W RICHARDS
Attorney-at-Law
Port-of-Spain