A chara,
Unfortunately GAAW does not have the up-to-date military intelligence that your Newcastle correspondent, Mr Roger Harrison, (Letters Wednesday 2 January 2008) has to hand, which I hope explains our silence re a Russian naval convoy travelling along the west coast of Ireland.

However, unlike Mr Harrison, we would be totally opposed to any foreign flotilla being permitted to use Irish territorial waters for military purposes, just as we are opposed to any foreign power being permitted to use our airspace or our airports for military purposes. By the way, it is not that long ago that Bush and Blair were cheerleaders of Putin's so-called 'war on terror' when he conducted his onslaught against the poor people of Chechnya. So, sorry, Mr Harrison, there are no inconsistencies or double standards on GAAW's part.

Last June we highlighted how the air show's website was seeking to turn the event into a military trade show. No doubt the wares of the military industrial complexes of the world on display at Salthill would have cheered a few ? perhaps even Mr Harrison. GAAW, however, does not see this military hardware as harmless boys' toys. We see them for what they are, killing machines that wreak death and destruction and see their very production as a total waste of resources.

Is mise,

Niall Farrell
PRO,
Galway Alliance Against War

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