Heat on Hegseth for boat strikes: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Outcry over Defense Secretary Pete’s Hegseth’s strikes on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat.
I discover the Democrats are off-target in criticizing President Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s strategy of eliminating alleged drug boats from Venezuela (“Hegseth didn’t call survivor hit: report,” Dec. 3).
Trump ought to host memorials for the hundreds of thousands which were misplaced to medication, beginning within the sanctuary cities. Grandparents, dad and mom, brothers, sisters and buddies would fill arenas and stadiums, giving voice to those that no longer can.
Donathan Salkaln
Chelsea
President Barack Obama took out harmless ladies and youngsters at an Afghanistan marriage ceremony in 2008; President Joe Biden bombed a household there in August 2021 with 10 innocents shedding their lives. There had been crickets from the media.
Yet, when a second air strike is important to complete the job on an alleged drug-filled boat operated by terrorists with no regard for American lives, abruptly there’s hysteria and speak of warfare crimes.
Do Trump’s critics, who’re blinded by hatred, suppose the intent of the primary strike was merely a stern warning? How the hypocritical and conscience-free left sleeps at evening stays a thriller.
Gary Kaelin
Commack
All of a sudden, the same old suspects of faux information, CNN, MS NOW and “The View,” all have their panties in a bunch over Hegseth’s supposed second strike towards a Venezuelan drug boat.
Yet they praised Obama over his covert drone strikes, regardless of his accountability for 55 civilian deaths in Yemen, 21 of which had been kids.
Thomas De Julio
Delray Beach, Fla.
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The second strike on the alleged drug runner boat appeared like regular warfare to me: The mission is to sink the boat. If doing that takes out survivors, they’re collateral casualties.
John Piccolo
Estero, Fla.
Here’s a memo to Pete Hegseth: “Fake news” doesn’t make an unlawful order proper.
The Washington Post implies he issued an order to kill two survivors clinging to the wreckage of the boat destroyed by a first assault.
I severely doubt that former Defense Secretaries William Perry, Leon Pannetta, William Cohen or Chuck Hagel would have carried out that.
Denny Freidenrich
Laguna Beach, Calif.
The Issue: Greta Thunberg’s short-term ban from Venice after pouring inexperienced dye within the Grand Canal.
Greta Thunberg and her like-minded band of thugs ought to be imprisoned for their despicable environmental terrorism in Venice’s Grand Canal (“Greta’s dye pour ban,” Nov. 25) .
A brief ban is barely a slap on the wrist; Italian residents ought to be outraged if the offenders get away so simply.
Who is aware of what natural marvel or national treasure is the subsequent stop on this loopy prepare?
N. Albanese
New Rochelle
The dismissive protection of Extinction Rebellion’s Venice protest follows a acquainted script: Radical motion is condemned as mindless vandalism, solely to be vindicated by historical past.
History suggests actions we mock as excessive typically show prophetic. The query isn’t whether or not Extinction Rebellion’s ways offend respectable sensibilities. The query is whether or not, many years from now, we’ll acknowledge that the “senseless antics” acquired our consideration in time to restrict probably the most disastrous impacts of climate change.
Frederick Hewett
Cambridge, Mass.
Greta’s inexperienced hijinks ought to land her in orange. When will European authorities begin treating this naïve, narcissistic reprobate just like the grownup she is, relatively than a naughty child simply foolishly partaking in one other prank?
Ira Cohen
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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