LETTER TO EDITOR: Obama doctrine is making America ill

Thanks to Frank J. Gaffney Jr. for shedding light on the Obama administration’s Honduras policy, which offers the clearest example yet of President Obama’s worldview (“Obama doctrine ‘coup,’ ” Opinion, Tuesday). The president is purposefully and systematically trying to weaken the standing of the United States around the world.

As Wesley Pruden pointed out months ago in The Washington Times, Mr. Obama is our first president without an appreciation of the culture, history, tradition, common law and literature whence America sprang. He clearly believes that the United States has been a negative force in the world, contrary to all objective evidence (which is why it would be impossible for him to do as Liz Cheney suggests and accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the U.S. military, the primary force for peace and freedom in the world over the past 70 years). Mr. Obama can do considerable damage to America’s standing around the world in the next three years, even more than the hapless Jimmy Carter was able to inflict.

Republicans in Congress should demand a public hearing on the Honduras debacle. Only two witnesses would be needed: Harold Koh (for Mr. Obama, Cuba’s Castro brothers, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega and Bolivia’s Evo Morales) and Miguel Estrada (for the freedom-loving people of Honduras).

BOB TARONE

Rockville