March of hatred at cost of world peace

SEEING in the news people trying to flee from Afghanistan with the arrival of the Taliban saddened me and I felt like crying.

Seeing people at the airport trying to escape on the US planes by hanging on the wheels and then falling off to their deaths is something you do not expect.

The people there feel for their future with the threat of being shot or stoned to death by the Taliban, who have no remorse, as they have shown in the past.

I feel that America and other countries only want to save their own skins and do not care about people there.

I feel so sorry for the people there and their future. At the moment, many people still there will feel threatened – with the risk of being killed if they supported the West.

The Taliban have accepted China and Russia who have threatened other countries and are a future threat. In Russia and China, freedom of speech is not allowed with executions and punishment. There is no human rights like we have here in England.

There are so many countries under dictators who we deal with, such as Saudi Arabia, who have executions.

We are fortunate that we live in multicultural cities with things we take for granted but the world is changing with the threat of wars elsewhere, with Iran soon having the power to possibly unleash nuclear missiles towards Israel, and China threatening America.

I only wish that the world could live together and not have hatred for each other and live in peace.

We shall never be able to achieve that.

DA Cookson, by email