The so-called ‘free world’ is no longer free when a leader acts like Donald Trump
Apart from the split infinitive, what are we to deduce from Donald Trump’s insane threat “tototallydestroynorthkorea” (Scotsman, September 20)?
Donald Trump compounds his garbled language by using the term ‘rocket man’ to refer to the leader of North Korea. Never before since the foundation of the UN has a statesman let loose an invective like that at the UN.
It is shivering to think that a President of the USA would resort to such invective, such inconceivable threats. The so-called “free world” is no longer free if one of its “leaders” acts in this manner. Who is next on the list for total destruction by the USA if the US President deems it so? And to think Buckingham Palace via Theresa May invited this demon to England for a state visit!
Why was there no mass walk-out at the UN by representatives after listening to such rants? Donald Trump referred to the word ‘we’ in his address. Is it the Nato ‘we’, or what? Unleashing a total war of annihilation will cause massive death, destruction and nuclear fall-out in the two Koreas and create a humanitarian disaster which will be impossible to alleviate.
Surely if Donald Trump orders such an annihilation the US military will refuse by replying “not in our name!” Surely, the remaining Nato countries collectively would do the same? Or does the UK “Special Relationship”
trump humanitarian considerations?
JOHN EDGAR Merrygreen Place, Stewarton At the United Nations, Trump threatens to wipe North Korea off the map while ignoring his Caribbean island neighbours (and a considerable chunk of Florida) being wiped off the map by twin hurricanes.
Meanwhile, Moscow puts up a statue to immortalise Mikhail Kalashnikov for creating the gun which has destroyed more lives than any other in history, while the world learns one of its residents, Stanislav Petrov the man who stopped global nuclear war due to satellite errors breaking out in 1983 died forgotten and in abject poverty four months earlier.
Let Tuesday 19 September 2017 go down in history as the day human civilisation ceased to be civilised.
MARK BOYLE Linn Park Gardens, Johnstone,
Renfrewshire Donald Trump has a habit of making front page headlines with bombastic threats such as to totally destroy North Korea.
A better, though less spectacular option would be to simply shoot down the next missile launched by Kim Jong-un. After all what is the point of arming ourselves to the teeth if we cannot take out a rocket fired into the Pacific Ocean?
JAMES MACINTYRE Clarendon Road, Linlithgow