Team USA’s ungrateful Olympians: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Team USA Olympians saying they’ve “mixed emotions” about representing America.
I don’t care how good a skier he’s, people like Hunter Hess have no business being within the Olympics (“Stars & strikes,” Feb. 8).
People watch sports activities to get away from politics, and representing one’s nation in an occasion as prestigious because the Olympics calls for unity.
Instead of staying in Italy, Hess and his minions ought to take a one-way journey to China, Russia or North Korea, the place issues could also be more to their liking.
Stuart Ellison
Brooklyn
As youngsters, I’m sure as we speak’s Olympians additionally dreamed of representing America within the Olympics.
When did their training fail them?
Members of the Miracle on Ice staff have been grateful and proud to characterize this nation.
America actually had its flaws in 1980 — hostages, fuel strains, Jimmy Carter — however that didn’t stop former Olympians’ patriotism.
Dan Lehman
White Plains
It’s essentially un-American to be anti-free speech.
Treating dissent as disloyalty is a betrayal of the very spirit The Post claims to defend.
You repeatedly confuse criticism of the federal government with hatred of the nation.
That is both ignorance or manipulation.
Saying athletes needs to be changed by somebody more patriotic in the event that they don’t meet the appropriate’s ideological requirements is grotesque.
I believed having overly delicate sensibilities was a liberal trait, however I suppose not.
Now you’ve turn out to be the “snowflakes.”
If your model of patriotism can’t survive a few trustworthy sentences, then the issue is just not the Olympians.
Kevin Locke
Detroit, Mich.
These brainless twits needs to be despatched home on the subsequent flight out of Italy. Never have so few embarrassed so many.
We don’t need these youngsters representing our nation.
Leon Strone
The Villages, Fla.
How urgent it should have been to those Olympians, that when given the highlight, they selected to air their anti-American gripes for the world to see.
America loves its Olympians, however we’ll always remember how some have tainted this yr’s expertise.
Colette Curry
Staten Island
Olympian snowflakes Hess, Chris Lillis and Amber Glenn are an embarrassment.
For them to trash America in a international land is disgraceful.
You’d suppose these morons would respect representing the nation that supplied them with the coaching and services that goes into taking part within the Olympics.
Robert DiNardo
Farmingdale
Lillis is a moron who by no means ought to’ve been picked for Team USA.
He someway thought the Olympics was the time and place to bash America. It made me sick to my abdomen.
Carol Meltzer
Manhattan
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The Issue: The arrest of a mastermind behind the 2012 assault on a US mission in Benghazi, Libya.
How did it take till 2026 to arrest this suspect who was allegedly half of the horrible bloodbath in Benghazi (“Agent of evil finally caught,” Feb. 7)?
Where have been the opposite administrations?
Sleeping?
Again, President Trump has proved he can do what different presidents couldn’t.
He’s a true American.
Mo Colarusso
Manhattan
Remember when Hillary Clinton mentioned it was time to maneuver on from the Benghazi tragedy?
Well, Trump by no means thought so, and now he’s proved it.
One of the masterminds behind the 2012 assault on the United States’ compound in Libya has been captured and delivered to America to face justice.
It could take years, however this exhibits the world you possibly can’t kill Americans and get away with it.
Great job, Trump.
Rob Feuerstein
Staten Island
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