SIR - I am afraid what has happened in Iraq is as I predicted. However my friend Dudley George is being nave if he feels that all would be well if we just abdicated our responsibility.

For all our problems in Iraq it is the failure of the developed world in particular and the UN in general that has allowed the genocide in Darfur, Sudan to occur.

It is no good just pretending those human rights abuses only occur when American and British troops are engaged in conflict. Worse, out of sight of the digital camera does not mean that such abuses are not occurring.

There are too many places where we remain oblivious to what is really happening and this shames me as it should shame every other person that cares about humanity in this world of ours.

Until and unless we take a more balanced approach to human rights across the globe can we have no right to speak with moral authority. Otherwise our position is as best hypocritical if not utterly duplicitous.

The zones of conflict I have visited always leave me with the words of those that said that intervention was too little and too late.

Maybe if we were to stop seeing the world through just one-eyed Western views we might realise what really needs to happen.

David Drew, MP for Stroud, House of Commons, London