Getting Tough on ISIS: Enough Political Correctness
l America has become afraid of itself (“Fear Only Fear,” Dec. 7).
The country’s afraid of any perceived damage to its local and international allcompassionatepurist reputation. This fear has fostered incredible apathy to the danger facing us.
This country needs someone that has the guts to say: “Sorry, folks, more stringent monitoring methods will be used in the United States, whether it be mosques, airports, community centers or foreign borders. We’re at war, and we’ll use every surveillance technique known.
We’ll also profile those who we think require it — when we feel it’s necessary, without the pretext of political correctness.
Not doing anything wrong? You have nothing to worry about.” Sonny Lapilotta
Flushing
l To all of you out there clamoring for boots on the ground to fight ISIS — here’s the deal: Make sure you volunteer or make sure your kids enlist.
Remember, no deferments either. Don’t be chickenhawks, like George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Have some skin in the game. Stew Frimer
Forest Hills
l President Obama has ignored our adversary’s identity and goals.
Instead of assuring us he’ll focus on winning, Obama’s been lecturing us to avoid Islamophobia and change gun laws that are irrelevant to the problem. Americans are waking up to his passionless aim to stick with ineffective tactics.
Winston Churchill isn’t spinning in his grave, he’s kicking it wide open.
David Bergstein
Manhattan
l The Post said it all in its editorial describing Obama’s speech as “pathetic” (“A Pathetic Speech,” Dec. 7).
I absolutely agree. Too bad Obama placed more emphasis on more guncontrol blather and defending Muslims against nonexistent Islamophobia instead of offering sympathies to families of the shooting victims.
I resent his lecturing style, poorly disguised as sincerity. John Fox
Galloway, NJ