Double standards
Sir, —I agree with Professor Haim Shaked of Tel Aviv University on the above subject. “You have to counter these very strange double standards, where somehow they always end up being critical of those who fight terrorism, yet condone what the terrorist does. Look at the outcry in the United States after the recent United States raids on Tripoli when it was found a child had been killed. Libyan-spon-sored terrorism has killed many children, many women, many people in many parts of the world, but that seems acceptable. When terrorists kill women and children everybody seems to take it in their stride. It is only the counter-action that draws outrage. How very true. Note the almost total lack of criticism of the A.N.C.-S.A.C.P. (South African Communist Party) atrocities in South Africa. — Yours, etc.,
L. R. WILKINSON. November 7, 1986.
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