Trump’s diplomatic war strategy: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: President Trump’s diplomatic and financial methods in Iran as his cease-fire continues.
The Post’s editorial must be the rallying cry for the Trump group (“Finish the Iran War,” May 2).
History is studied as a result of it has a tendency to repeat itself.
In the 1991 Iraq war, we didn’t have the abdomen to complete the job.
President George H.W. Bush left the issue for his son and 12 years later, we went back in as a result of of perceived threats of weapons of mass destruction.
President Trump has said he doesn’t wish to depart the Iran job unfinished for future presidents to fret about.
Let’s end the Iran nuclear downside now.
Brice Russell
Naples, Fla.
Shame on politicians like Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, who enabled Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for 50 years.
For 5 many years, the IRGC and its supporters have chanted “Death to America.”
Trump has used direct diplomacy to de-escalate the state of affairs within the Strait of Hormuz.
Bypassing conventional bureaucratic and diplomatic channels has already allowed him to attain a strategic victory.
Now, he should end the war — diplomatically or militarily.
The alternative is up to the IRGC.
James Patterson
Washington, DC
Richard Goldberg’s proposal to drive Tehran to compromise utilizing a blockade is way more humane than Trump’s risk to bomb bridges and energy plants and cut back Iran to the Stone Ages (“Crushing Tehran in 3 moves,” May 2).
The problem will likely be opening up half of the Strait whereas nonetheless implementing an embargo on delivery from Iran.
If the US Navy can free half of the Strait whereas nonetheless blocking Iran’s delivery, that would probably result in a peaceable compromise.
Other elements of Goldberg’s proposal, resembling pipelines to bypass the strait, would take too long to deal with the present battle.
Bruce Couchman
Toronto, Canada
After the IRGC survived joint US-Israeli strikes during Operation Epic Fury, it predictably pulled out its Strait of Hormuz card, which has rattled world markets.
But the Trump administration’s naval blockade was a good jiu-jitsu transfer that can bear great fruit, whether it is sustained.
The hazard right here is that the political calendar might tempt Trump to accept a nebulous diplomatic win — taking regime change off the desk.
James Hyland
Beechhurst
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The Issue: Maine’s Dem Senate candidate, Graham Platner’s extremist previous, together with a Nazi tattoo.
In her takedown of Graham Platner, Miranda Devine mentions that Nazis and Communists are “two sides of the same rotten coin” (“Lowlife Dems better look in mirror,” May 4).
She isn’t completely proper: The Nazis had been by no means a right-wing get together as typically thought.
In actuality, they and communists have at all times occupied the identical aspect of the identical coin.
Miranda forgets the phrase “Nazi” was and is short for National Socialist Party, as left-wing an group as they arrive.
Bob Heier
Estero, Fla.
Democrats will endorse a candidate who long had a Nazi tatoo however now, after blowback may cost him, denies figuring out it was such.
Then they lambaste Trump by falsely labeling him a Nazi.
This is Trump Derangement Syndrome in all caps.
Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati, Ohio
The largest downside on this nation is that the mainstream media is a Democratic associate.
As long because it refuses to inform the public of his covered-up Nazi tattoo, his antisemitic posting on X and his anti-American stance, the low-information voter will at all times be at the hours of darkness — solely listening to “orange man is bad” and “MAGA is fascist.”
Mike Santavicca
Yonkers
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