The sensible French know there is no threat of a "spectacular" attack on the Eiffel Tower (Letters, March 18).

Neither it nor any other building in France (or the UK for that matter) is an international symbol of US capitalism.

For it is the rampant greed and corruption of corporate capitalist America that is the only real threat to global peace and prosperity - something for which George Bush's fascist and everlasting "war against terrorism" is just a cover.

-William Bellchambers, Nevill Road, Uckfield