We haven’t done our best to avoid nuclear war
The answer to Phil Kadner’s piece “If nukes fly, did we do our best?” is NO— we did not do our best, on so many levels.
First, we elected an irresponsible, unfit president on the lark who we wanted to “drain the swamp” and shake things up in Washington. Somehow, during the insulting and adolescent rhetoric of the 2016 campaign, the serious issue of a world- annihilating nuclear war did not come up.
Next, we elected a GOP House and Senate that are so focused on enacting tax cuts for the rich that they support and enable this president— nomatter how outrageous his behavior. I suppose the thinking is that this will never happen— that North Korea will not use nuclear bombs, as they know their country would be destroyed in retaliation.
However, their president is an enigma and Trump’s threatsmay frighten or taunt him to react emotionally. The result could be a nuclear war. On the bright side, we wouldn’t have to worry about climate change anymore CarolKraines, Deerfield
Growup or get out
While children starve to death in Somalia, families drown in the Mediterranean, climate change devastates the American landscape with flood and drought, and elephants across Africa are murdered so their tusks can be turned to trinkets, the president of theUnited States is getting a head rush saber- rattling with North Korea’s equally mad dictator. He needs to growup or get out and let a responsible adult be in charge. Margaret Frisbie, Hermosa
Secret reader?
Most people don’t giveMr. Trump credit for his intellect, but I think he is a “reader,” if only in secret, so as to not upset the bulk of his followers. Iwould even venture that he loves Shakespeare, and that his favorite play isHenry the IV, Part II.
In Act IV, Scene 5, the dying King Henry gives some advice to his son, young Prince Hal. It’s advice thatMr. Trump has obviously taken to heart: “Therefore, my Harry,/ Be it thy course to busy giddy minds/ With foreign quarrels, that action, hence borne out,/ May waste the memory of former days.” In other words, as the situation regarding North Korea continues ( and even worsens?), themedia and the American people pay less attention toMr. Trump and his problems with RobertMueller and his investigation. I think thatMr. Trump is playing his part with verve and brio. Further, someone else may also be delighting in the words of the Bard. No, I’mnot speaking ofMr. Kim Jong On, but of Vladimir Putin. While our giddy minds are paying attention to the foreign quarrel being played out between Washington and Pyongyang, we are paying little to no attention toMr. Putin and anything hemight be planning to do in eastern Europe, or elsewhere. And so the curtain falls. JohnVukmirovich, Lemont