Letter: A plight Britain couldn't ignore

I WAS saddened and disappointed by your leader article on 29 May headlined "Wake up, we're at war", condemning Britain's intervention in Libya.

Stepping in to check Gaddafi's murderous campaign against his own people probably wasn't in our narrow national self-interest. But it was, unquestionably, the right thing to do - as it was right to intervene in Bosnia, in Kosovo, and in 1939, re Poland. A policy of turning away when desperate populations appeal for help leads to the bloody, three-year siege of Sarajevo, the horror and shame of Srebrenica, and ultimately the Holocaust.

Ross Laidlaw, Dunbar