Letters September 9: Archbishop is losing the moral high ground

IN an article for a national newspaper George Carey argues that air strikes and other British military assistance may be needed in Syria: a rare attack of rationality from the former Archbishop of Canterbury who was never up to the job.

However, with typical obtuseness, he goes on to say that Britain should prioritise Christian refugees. It then crosses his addled mind that what he says “sounds harsh and, heaven forbid, a touch unchristian”. Only a touch?

Christians may have suffered disproportionately since the Assad regime was undermined but if you pick and choose whom you help according to religion you lose the moral high ground. Surely even Lord Carey should be able to get his head round the parable of the Good Samaritan?

From: Mrs Valerie Moody, Little Smeaton, Wakefield.

I MAY be naive but can anybody explain to this 80-year-old, why all these apparently fit and agile young men, seen scaling fences and running the risk of injury or worse to travel clinging to lorries into the UK are not staying in their homeland to defend it? In 1939/40 did our young men run away? My own two brothers, aged 19 and 17, were quick to join the RAF. Enlighten me please.