I CANNOT understand how people in this country and in Royal Wootton Bassett can stand by whilst a seemingly endless number of young men are slaughtered in an unwinnable war.

Surely some form of protest is in order?

What do you honestly think will happen in Afghanistan when the last western soldier departs?

Would you want your child to perish or be crippled in such an overseas post-colonial adventure? It would not be tolerated in my country!

Friedreich Walter, Bournemouth