I wish to reply to the letter Middle East nations a danger to one another . It is highly untrue. Since Middle East nations are predominantly of the same ethnic race, speak the same language and are of the same religion, there are very little naturally-occurring disturbances over there, except when started by external meddlesome nations with mischievous intent.

The writer fails to point out the reason why there is peace in Europe, which is basically because of the invention of the atom bomb and that all the major players in Europe have them. The atom bomb has made wars redundant which is why countries like Iran and Syria are pursuing them so that the US and Israel will leave their citizens to live in peace.

The examples quoted by the writer do not prove his or her point. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait was painless to the Kuwaiti people. In fact, the people of Kuwait did not put up any resistance.

It was due to this lack of abhorrence to Saddam that the Kuwaiti ruling family and their American allies invented the story of 'the incubator massacre' in which a young Kuwaiti girl claimed to have seen Iraqi soldiers kill helpless Kuwaiti babies in hospital incubators.

Only after the war to 'liberate' Kuwait supposedly, did journalists find out that this was a fabrication. But the result of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait - which barely caused any casualties - was the Gulf war which inflicted a heavy toll upon the Iraqi people who really has no say in what their government did.

On top of that, the people of Kuwait never even got the democracy they hoped for. Now again, another war against Iraq based on false premise - that Saddam was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.

Another blatant lie which the writer above seems to be trying to perpetuate. Come on, no more lies, please. We're sick of lies.