After 10 years of war in Afghanistan (Report, 5 October), more than 100,000 Nato troops remain and tens of thousands have died. Government claims that the war is contributing to Britain's stability look increasingly hollow. Opinion polls suggest the majority of Britons want a speedy withdrawal of British troops, a view recently endorsed by the trade unions. Politicians have to get in step with public opinion and announce a date to bring troops home. We will be attending the mass anti-war assembly this Saturday (8 October) in Trafalgar Square. We urge your readers to join us.
Howard Blake
Tony Benn
Noam Chomsky
AL Kennedy
Jemima Khan
Roger Lloyd-Pack
Tim Lezard
Phil Shiner
Michael Rosen
Phil Shiner
Ahdaf Soueif
David Soul
Dave Randall
David Gentleman
Celia Mitchell
Eugene Skeef
Victoria Brittain
David Swanson
Vince Medeiros
Peter Kennard
Cat Phillips
Hamish Jenkinson
Lindsey German Stop the War Coalition
Kate Hudson CND
Mohammed Kozbar BMI
??The televised reading of the names of the dead (On 9/11 they came to mourn?, 12 September) dramatically demonstrated the scale of both the numbers and the effect on families and friends: 2,977 names read in four and a half quiet and dignified hours. Soon we will have to mark the centenary of the 1914-18 war. One estimate suggests more than 16.5 million died. A similar reading, continuous and at the same rate, would take about three years.
John Gibbons
Manchester
? Re the Southsea pub landlady and her court victory (Report, 5 October), if we all bought Greek set-top decoder boxes, we could watch cheaper TV and the Greek economy would start to recover.
Brian P Moss
Tamworth, Staffordshire
? John Dugdale should crouch, touch and engage with New Zealand literature before saying rugby is "deprived" of reading matter (The Week in Books, 1 October). Before Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones was winning prizes for The Book of Fame about the 1905 All Blacks tour of the northern hemisphere. And arguably NZ's finest play, Foreskin's Lament by Greg McGee, is set in a rugby changing room. Next question: will McCaw, Smith and co match McGee and Jones's work?
Jonathan Clarke
London
? When Phil Wensley finds out what an autodidact is (Letters, 4 October), could he let me know. I think I'd like to be one.
Steve Munro
Clacton-On-Sea, Essex
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/oct/05/war-in-afghanistan
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