To the editor:

I’ll say it again: President Trump was right to attack Iran’s regime.'

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mikerins

Say it as many times as you want Jim, it doesn't change the idiocy of Trump pulling out of a treaty that was working and thereby making everything worse, which appears to be Trump's superpower.

The one thing you can count on is that what Trump says is going to happen will not be what happens. That's what happens when a president with no concept of foreign policy, diplomacy, or the ability to understand complex, nuanced issues is elected. Our foreign policy, diplomacy, and international relations will wear the stain of our election of Trump twice for decades.

MEPD Ret

Trump didn’t “make everything worse”—he killed a suicidal giveaway that funneled billions in cash to terrorists and allowed Iran to sprint toward a nuclear bomb while you cheered a ludicrous, unenforceable treaty. That’s not idiocy; that’s leadership. Abraham Accords. No new wars. NATO allies are finally paying their bills. Enemies are deterred instead of emboldened. Your “nuanced diplomacy” delivered chaos, weakness, and a world laughing at American resolve. Let's never forget the disastrous Afghan pull-out, orchestrated by 'Ole Joe. Trump said he’d put America first, and he did—exactly as promised. The only lasting stain is the humiliation of electing people who mistake surrender for sophistication. Twice, we chose strength. Cope harder.

mikerins

It's hard to fathom how uninformed you choose to be. The money that went to Iran was not a giveaway, it was a settlement from a long-standing dispute.

Again you choose the moronic path of lying about something that's easily disproven with even the slightest effort. Iran was adhering to the treaty, you could take a second and look it up and you'd find the International Atomic Energy, US intelligence and the other signatories all agreed. But you won't do that because it doesn't fit your lying narrative.

The Abraham Accords? Really? You mean the agreement Trump claimed would bring peace in the Middle East? You know who the main signatories were, right? One of them was Israel. That's right, they honored the Abraham Accords by starting a war in the Middle East, that's how effective the Abraham Accords were. Hey, don't get me wrong, any attempt to stabilize and spread peace in the Middle East is worthwhile, but to claim a complete failure like it has turned out to be as a victory is beyond stupid.

No new wars?!!!!! What planet are you living on? You may have heard we're at war with Iran, even on Fox News.

NATO allies have picked up their payments to the organization, but now they're spending quite a bit more on their own defense because they rightly view Trump as an unreliable lunatic. Their lack of faith in us as an ally will cost us a ton of influence in the coming decades, but Trump can't handle complex ideas, only transactional interactions, dooming him in any real foreign policy arena.

Enemies are deterred? Really? I don't see Putin or Xi's knees knocking together, I see Putin owning Trump and Xi beating him at every turn in negotiations.

Biden's nuanced diplomacy pulled NATO together and stopped Putin from overrunning Ukraine. That was real strength, not the idiotic tough talk from Trump, who dodged the draft by getting his daddy to get his doctor to lie about him having bone spurs to keep from serving his country.

If you took the time to read foreign news services you'd see overwhelmingly in the non-dictator countries both of Trump's terms we have been regarded as laughingstocks both as a country and as voters for electing an unqualified, unmitigated disaster buffoon to our highest elected position. Biden, on the other hand, was well respected, and foreign nations were briefly able to think we'd regained our senses. Sadly, 2024 proved we hadn't.

The Afghan pullout was planned by Trump, he just never had the guts to do it, though he promised to. Par for the course for Trump.

As even Marjorie Taylor Greene admits now that her TDS fever has broken, Trump and MAGA are not for America or Americans, they are for Trump and billionaires. The facts amply demonstrate the truth of that statement.

The lasting stain is not just electing a man that is rated the worst president in our history but re-electing him. His racism, bigotry, misogyny, status as a sexual predator, open corruption and repeated treason will leave a stain on our country internally while his moronic and disastrous actions emboldening our enemies and terrifying our allies will leave a stain on our country internationally for decades to come.

Trump is the farthest thing from strong a man can be. He's weak minded, weak bodied, and weak morally. Watching him with a genuine strongman like Putin or Xi is pathetic, they steamroll him every time, especially Putin.

Any time you see someone who tries to control everyone around him, you know you're in the presence of weakness. That type of person knows down deep they lack things, so they try to control others. It's sad and pathetic to see, and though I feel bad for people like that we can't give them a pass and let them try to fill the whole in themselves by taking the rest of us down disastrous paths. Trump's just the highest profile example. His malignant narcissism is an even bigger risk to our country than his clear cognitive decline (especially since he started at such a low level to begin with).

Open your eyes. Answer my question; how do you sleep at night supporting a known sexual predator who we all know has the DOJ covering up even more damning revelations than his sexual assaults of women?

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