I WAS troubled and disappointed by your contradictory Comment (Evening Advertiser, October 29).

In it you used the headline Remember the Cause of it All and then went on to say "but the pacifists who organise these peace campaigns should never forget the reason for the military action".

I think it is important to bring to your attention that in the previous Friday's article on the peace walk you correctly reported that the walk "will also carry a candle in memory of the thousands who died".

In fact, your feature in that Monday's edition (three pages before the Comment) again correctly reported that "we were all grieved by the terrorist attacks on September 11 but bombing Afghanistan is not going to solve anything, it will just inflame the situation". We would all like to see Osama bin Laden brought to justice but attacking the Afghan people is not the way to do it.

While I commend your coverage in these articles, your writing in Comment could easily be seen as reckless and inflammatory.

These are sensitive times and given the number of people at the walk and the diversity of age, religion and background, there was great unity of purpose.

Your comments fly in the face of what actually happened (as you reported) and do nothing to help harmony in our community.

I, like the rest of the world, was horrified by the attacks on New York anyone with a sane mind and good heart would be. But, by the same token, how could you not feel the same horror at the death of civilians, this time in Afghanistan?

KIERAN BATTLES

Swindon

I WAS incensed when I read your Comment on the peace walk in the Evening Advertiser on October 29.

The article on page three on the walk was great helping to raise awareness of the issues felt by a large number of people you know as well as I do that to get 80 Swindonians onto the streets is quite something.

The walk was always intended to respectfully remember those who died in the atrocities of September 11; as you reported on Friday, October 26, never to forget the reason for the military action.

Many of us have friends and relatives in New York and the USA and we are not likely to forget how this has deeply affected them.

This is not necessarily about being a pacifist. The walk was about looking for justice without the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians in Afghanistan.

Pacifism was not the premise on which the walk was held, nor necessarily the reason people came.

It was about remembering those who died and highlighting the devastating effects the bombing is having on the ordinary people of Afghanistan.

Comments like these are neither helpful not constructive in these difficult times.

ALISON HALE

Swindon