Letters to the Editor — March 29, 2025 – Latest News
The Issue: The Trump administration’s response to the Signal group-chat battle plans leak scandal.
Miranda Devine is spot-on in her dialogue of Signal-gate, however by some means fails to present the profitable resolution (“Winning team’s lesson learned,” March 27).
Security issues of such significance ought to be mentioned solely within the Cone of Silence, as “Get Smart” has proven us.
While Control did expertise some issues with the Cone in the ’60s, certainly technology has improved since then, making this a viable option.
Let’s get Elon Musk’s staff on it.
Let’s use the Cone and never let this embarrassing gaffe distract from President Trump’s profitable insurance policies.
Michael G. Brautigam
Tallinn, Estonia
Jeffrey Goldberg’s choice to release the Signal chat texts rivals Daniel Ellsberg’s release of the top-secret Pentagon Papers in 1971.
Beyond the act of braveness that Goldberg and Ellsberg now share, each releases unveil the fact behind US battle plans.
If you ask me, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others on the chat will inherit the similar disdain Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk and their cronies did half a century in the past.
Denny Freidenrich
Laguna Beach, Calif.
It is evident that Jeffrey Goldberg mustn’t have been included on the telephone call.
However, he was, and it was a horrible mistake.
Human beings make errors and should be taught from them so they aren’t repeated.
A mature, actual chief would settle for duty and guarantee it doesn’t occur again.
However, Trump and his allies are doing the reverse — making certain it can occur again and again.
Next time, it may end in mission failure and the deaths of our troopers.
Alan Podhaizer
Brooklyn
It seems that Trump and his administration should be good and can’t make any errors.
The Democrats’ assaults following the Signal chat mishap are simply one other instance of their hypocrisy in overdrive.
Under the management of former President Joe Biden, our nation circled the drain as Democrats surrendered Afghanistan, allowed criminals into our nation, tanked our economic system and stood by whereas Israel and Ukraine have been attacked.
The Signal chat mistake is a hiccup compared.
Michael D’Auria
Bronxville
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The Issue: Vice President J.D. Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance’s upcoming go to to Greenland.
It appeared that Second Lady Usha Vance was going to go to Greenland for a cultural occasion earlier than becoming a member of National Security Adviser Mike Waltz for a briefing on Arctic security points (“The power of pride,” Daniel McCarthy, March 25).
Now that Vice President J.D. Vance is coming alongside, the go to has change into more formal.
As an official go to, they’re heading into unfriendly territory and might not be properly acquired — in contrast to at home, of course, the place they’re instructed everybody loves them.
Or possibly there’s a completely different purpose for his or her go to: home searching.
They may very well be searching for a discount earlier than Greenland turns into one other American state and real estate costs surge.
That’s in all probability a farcical suggestion — however then again, so are many of the Trump administration’s proposals.
Dennis Fitzgerald
Melbourne, Australia
McCarthy rightly factors out the nationalistic reactions in Greenland to President Trump’s bold rhetoric.
While it could be sensible for the Trump administration to observe the Monroe Doctrine in shaping overseas coverage, it could even be sensible to heed Theodore Roosevelt’s advice: “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Vance ought to keep this in thoughts on his Greenland go to.
Francis Cooley
Plainville, Conn.
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