Cotton watches over

In mid-January, Sen. Tom Cotton was the first American leader who raised the alarm regarding reports of a new virus in Wuhan, China. He was reading the news reports coming from Asia. We should be proud that we have a senator who takes his responsibilities seriously.

On Jan. 14 the World Health Organization sent out a message that China had found no evidence the virus can be spread human to human. That’s approximately the time that China was slapping a quarantine on an area that contained 50 million people. Were those people still able to travel outside China?

John Brummett wrote a column Thursday attacking Senator Cotton’s motives for looking into the spread of this virus around the world. Please consider running the recent op-ed from Senator Cotton that ran in The Wall Street Journal. He references the news reports from within China.

There are many questions that the United Nations should be asking. We should never again allow the majority of our pharmaceuticals and key medical supplies to be manufactured in China.

John Brummett should go back to despising President Trump and making fun of evangelical Christians. Leave Senator Cotton to watch over all of us.

By the way, Ms. Brenda Looper asked why more people don’t write in to defend President Trump. I think that it’s because he comes across, to a well-mannered Southern gentleman, as a braying donkey. Policies matter.

STEVE ALLINSON Benton