In his op-ed “Punishing the Saudi prince” (Web, Dec. 11), Clifford May places in proper prospective the importance of Saudi Arabia to world stability. He provides valuable insight into the strategic significance of Saudi Arabia in a Middle East torn asunder by various Islamic ideologies. History is an additional critical factor that must be considered. As philosopher Santayana said 100-plus years ago, Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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The border wall is not Donald Trump’s. It’s an American border wall to define our property, control legal immigration and safeguard American rights to sovereignty (“Trump: If Democrats hold back on border wall, the military will build it,” Web, Dec. 11). If top Democrats refuse to shut down the border, the president should shut down the government. Without the one we won’t need the other. We can just wait for our orders from the United Nations in New York after they confer with Brussels.
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For the Pearl Harbor attack, the 77th anniversary of which we marked last week, the Japanese forged a strategic weapon of six heavy carriers for a coordinated attack by 360 planes on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941. Never before had any country executed and/or planned a raid by more than two carriers on any naval or land target. No inkling existed within allied operational or intelligence communities of a capability beyond the 21-torpedo bombers a British carrier had used to attack the Italian navy at Taranto. Pearl Harbor presented the opportunity for a strategic victory achieving control over much of the Pacific Ocean.
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I applaud the demise of the "conservative" political magazine The Weekly Standard ("Weekly Standard on the brink: 'I don't expect it to exist' in 2019, report says," Web, Dec. 4). The folks who manage the magazine have for years stood in the way of creating better lives and circumstances for all Americans and have been most vocal since President Trump was elected.
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"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declares climate change 'the civil rights movement of our generation'" (Web, Dec. 3) underscores the planet's urgent need to halt, or at least slow, the dire effects of climate change. The point was similarly laid bare by both the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the U.S. National Climate Assessment. Yet the Paris Climate Accord is not off the hook, either.
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Rick Berman, who represents a front group that supports practices that harm animals and the environment, starts off his op-ed about antibiotics with a tale about romaine lettuce and E. coli ("How animal activists threaten animal welfare," Web, Dec. 3). He neglects to mention that leafy greens don't naturally harbor E. coli bacteria. It lives in the intestinal tracts and feces of warm-blooded animals. When cow, pig or chicken manure is used to fertilize crops or leaks into waterways, fruits and vegetables can become contaminated.
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Lots of people do not like Facebook because of privacy concerns or because they think it is a social media monopoly. But there are currently no alternatives out there. The short answer regarding the fix is this: Congress would pass a law stating that everyone owns their own Facebook name and information, and Facebook (or any other new company) has to provide a network connection to allow other companies to import/export that information into the platform of your choice.
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San Juan Mayor Carmin Yulin Cruz Soto is name-calling, prevaricating and showboating again. Puerto Rico's media love her, but she's lying and making liars out of them.
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"Reforming our bureaucracy should be on Congress' agenda" (Web, Dec. 3) was a very good political commentary piece by John York on reforming the U.S. government. I would like to add another avenue that such a reformation effort could travel. In the 1980s the Department of Defense initiated the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) effort. The president named a nine-person committee known as the BRAC Committee. These nine people met, held hearings to get outside input and then submitted to the president a list of installations they thought should be closed or realigned.
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The "yellow jacket" riots in Paris over French President Emmanuel Macron's added gas tax demonstrate that many French who favor socialism, which results in monstrous government debt and high unemployment, are learning that the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's observation about socialism (it is fine until you run out of other people's money), is indeed a truism, not a quip ("'Yellow jackets will triumph': 133 injured, 412 arrested in Paris protest riot," Web, Dec. 2).
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Your editorial "Misery in the midst of plenty" (Web, Dec. 2) thoughtfully juxtaposes the vibrant American economy with our not-so-vibrant "connectedness to community." Is this not the irony of ironies: that what sociologists call the "crisis of connection" grows in tandem with the explosive popularity of online social media?
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The Founders intended for people to have "the right to keep and bear arms" in order to fend off a tyrannical government. However, they could not have anticipated the advances of technology (i.e., semi- and automatic weapons and beyond). Even if the latter type of weapons falls under Second Amendment rights, I would argue that future weapons of much greater damage potential would need government regulation. For example, a small nuclear or laser device that could destroy a city block (or a whole city) would be too dangerous for purchase by the average citizen.
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After listening to an interview given by Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia saying that President Trump will be abusing his power if he pardons Michael Cohen, a former business partner, I couldn't help but think there is a double standard regarding violation of our laws.
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No one has the right to enter your home without an invitation. In most states, a homeowner has the right to kill an intruder. Similarly, no one has a right to simply enter the United States.
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The Mayflower, carrying 102 pilgrims and 30 crew members, landed at Provincetown Harbor off the coast of Massachusetts in November of 1620. Many of the colonists barely survived the harsh winters of 1620 and 1621. Many others died.
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