I feel compelled to reply to P. Dolden's letter ‘NZ forces shouldn't face Isis crisis' (The Sun February 27). Dolden is condemning our Prime Minister for agreeing to send some soldiers and armaments to aid our allies in Iraq.

Dolden has not mentioned two World Wars when our young and middle aged men were conscripted to go overseas to North Africa, Europe, and some south west Pacific Islands.
In both wars, the USA came to the aid of England, France, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, otherwise we could be speaking German or Japanese. So the Prime Minister John Key is quite right to send men and armaments to Iraq, as those fanatical extremists are aiming for world domination at all costs. One sees on TV the terrible atrocities committed by the likes of Isis. They are in every country and I saw on TV there are 30 to 40,000 here in NZ.

Our democratic way of life could be doomed if Isis are not annihilated, once and for good!

Ernest Izett, Tauranga.