To the editor: Typically an image is value way over a thousand phrases. The photograph accompanying contributing author Jon Duffy’s opinion piece speaks — no, shouts — 1000’s and 1000’s of phrases (“Trump isn’t ready to accept his strategic failures in Iran,” April 7).
It exhibits President Trump talking about his struggle on Iran. Has any American president ever publicly seemed like this? What phrases are there to explain it? Offended, retributive, uncontrolled, hateful, self-absorbed, belligerent, vindictive.
The issue is, he seems to be like this a lot of the time any time he offers a speech. What volumes does this say about him? Extra importantly, what whole deadly libraries does it say about us?
Tim Vivian, Bakersfield
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To the editor: It appears to me {that a} highschool geography scholar may have a look at a map of the Persian Gulf and plainly see that probably the most strategic space within the area is the Strait of Hormuz. So why didn’t the U.S. army deploy its property there within the first days of the battle as an alternative of spending billions on bombs blowing up central Iran? As Duffy writes, “Destruction just isn’t the identical as management.”
World Conflict II was gained as a result of the U.S. left the technique as much as the the army leaders, not the political hawks.
Robert Dalton, Beaumont
