Reader questions Den Tandt’s facts concerning U.S. invasions

Re: Tracing the toxic root of the alt-right, Column, Sept. 12

Michael Den Tandt’s column contains inaccuracies and omissions. He writes that in 2001 “the Taliban government refused to turn over Osama bin Laden” to the U.S. On the contrary, they offered to extradite him if presented with evidence that he was behind the terrorist attacks on the U.S. The U.S. could have tried responding to their offer before resorting to an invasion.

Den Tandt also writes that international law was “set aside” by the U.S. when they invaded Iraq in 2003. This is an extremely misleading way of describing the commission of what the Nuremburg tribunals called “the supreme international crime.” If I robbed a bank, would Den Tandt write that I had “set aside” the law against bank robbery? Greg DePaco, New Westminster