It's happened again – a lone bomber has detonated a bomb in a public place, killing 22 and hospitalising 59 other individuals. A terrible act and horrendous outcome. The world rightly condemns the perpetrators.

While we condemn this lone bomber we condone our allies doing far greater atrocities because the media makes little or nothing of their horrendous acts.

The USA last year dropped 26,000 bombs from high-flying aircraft or remotely-controlled drones. The pilots went back to their mess for dinner; the drone operators went home to mow the lawns and play with their kids. If each of those 26,000 bombs has the same effect as the lone Manchester bomber's one, then 572,000 people would and probably
were killed and 1,534,000 hospitalised (if they had hospitals).

We belong to a club (John Key) that wages our wars remotely and it is only when it is brought home to us do we realise that people are being maimed and killed. Then we realise that we reap what we sow.

Regime change is the term used to justify our carnage and it is vested interests that decides which regime needs changing. Why do we offer support to the USA in its illegal campaigns?

P Dolden, Papamoa.