Republicans’ Scarlet Letter: Keeping Iran Nuke- Free
The open letter to Iran, the recent Homeland Security funding cavein and the decision to invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress have one thing in common: an inability by conservatives in Congress to speak directly to the American people about what they believe (“Iran’s Got Mail,” Editorial, March 11).
Instead of this theatrical gesture, why can’t Sen. Cotton or any of the other signees get up from their seat and spell out how President Obama is destroying the separation of powers?
As much as I revere Netanyahu, why couldn’t some member of the “mute party” have spoken the very words he did? What good is a Republican majority if it never fights for what it supposedly believes in? If Sen. Mitch McConnell can’t or won’t do this, someone else should, and fast. Bob Hunt
Hillsborough, NJ
Of all the reactions from Democratic quarters decrying the letter sent by 47 Republican senators to Iran’s ruling mullahs, White House spokesman Josh Earnest’s was the most hysterical. He recklessly referred to this letter as being a “rush to war or, at least, the rush to the military option.” No, Josh. It’s all about the legitimate fear of a dangerous deal coming down the pike— one that a lunatic theocratic regime will game.
What these untrustworthy trustees of American power consider a bad deal is anyone’s guess. Because of Bibi’s Churchillian speech, buttressed by this letter, the president is forced to think twice about pulling out his perilous pen to put a dubious foreignpolicy feather in his cap. James Hyland
Beechhurst
It appears that Israel, Republicans and Iranian hardline Islamists all have something in common: They all want war.
Radical Islam now calls the Republican senators who wrote a letter to undermine the peace process “brothers.” War is easy; peace takes work. But in the long run, peace is always the better idea. If peace talks break down, then Iran is definitely going to want to develop the bomb.
I would think that if Iran calls the Republican Congress “brothers,” that should be a clue that you are on the wrong track. Marc Perkel Gilroy, Calif.