ROBERT Readman (Letters 24/3/11), came up with one very interesting point, mainly being, ‘Why the hell have we become so involved?’ We already have two wars on the go that are costing our country billions within these so-called ‘lean and mean-times’, so why do we now need another?

The word on the street is that we are doing it to ‘protect civilians’ opposed to Colonel Gaddafi and his armies.

Yet, when I watch my BBC News and see the rebels advancing, I don’t see any ‘civilians’, I see armed troops with rockets and machine guns.

At the start, the rebels were advancing and then were forced back by the pro-Gaddafis.

Then the UN no-fly zone came in and bombed the hell out of the pro-Gaddafis - so now the ‘rebels’ are advancing again.

In an act of civil war out there, are we in the West just taking sides?

In all wars, ordinary civilians always suffer.

Now we protect the ‘civilians’ on one side, whilst we bomb the hell out of the civilians on the other.

We should not be there.

Like all other such conflicts, once we go in its very hard to get out.

And UK for a start just cannot afford a third conflict, even if we could afford the last two.

CHRISTINE PETERS, Wellington Road, Bournemouth