What became of Donald Rumsfeldt and the Neocons (no, not a pop group!), who advocated war against Iraq after the 9/11 atrocity and who used the bribable and gullible George Bush and Tony Blair as their destructive pawns?

Have they crawled back beneath the stones where they belong, or more probably, does this Kabal continue to operate covertly?

They are undoubtedly guilty of being the principal cause of an escalating crisis in the Middle East; first in Afghanistan, then in Libya and had they had their way, in Syria, but for the intervention of Russia’s Putin.

Their subsequent frustration was to persuade NATO to rough woo Ukraine, thus effectively alienating Russia as a demonised parish within the family of the so called ‘International Community’.

The result of this orchestrated ‘Arab Spring’, has been the growth of ISIS and the displacement of millions of people, classified as refugees, now knocking as an ungovernable force on the doors of Italy, France and Britain; claiming refuge, even on occasions, where there has been no evidence of war or persecution in their own country.

Rather than proving the arbiters of a smooth transition to a New World Order, the Neoconservatives have demonstrated they are, in fact, the sinister puppet masters of chaos.

JAMES MARTIN, Foulford Road, Cowdenbeath.