The tangled web of foreign wars and terrorism | Letters

The overthrow of Gaddafi following western intervention ‘brought about the ungovernable space in Libya which Isis has exploited’, writes Jake Lynch.Paul Mason (G2, 27 May) is wrong to claim that the blowback theory is irrelevant in the case of the Manchester attack.It is not confined to “blam[ing] Islamist terrorism directly on western expeditionary warfare”, as Mason incorrectly states.