LETTER TO THE EDITOR, Sheryl Hall, Liberal

Yes, I’m against our attack on Iran.

To explain why would require a fairly lengthy book report, but I can tell you roughly it is for the same reasons that lead me to the conclusion that we should not attack each time it came up over the years, most of my adult life, as it did for every president during most of my adult life before Trump, even though they, too, have heard the rhetoric from Bibi Netanyahu since 1992.

“In a very short time,” “in a matter of weeks,” “within months.” Now, some of you will tell me that all of a sudden we have a president who is smarter than all of them and their advisors. Even though Iran’s nuclear capabilities were “completely and totally obliterated (Trump’s words),” back in June.

Admittedly, I have some skin in the game. Two of my kids now serve in the military. But if not for that, then I would be against this war on behalf of your kids.

And before you tell me, “They knew what they signed up for,” I would argue that they had the reasonable expectation of there being adults in the room when they signed up for this, not some severely unqualified Secretary of Defense who thought it so all-fired important to change his title to “Secretary of War” (that should have told us something), who loves to use phrases like “without mercy.” His incompetence came shining through in a leaked text that exposed top secret information to a journalist.

And now even worse, the killing of a bunch of school girls. Argue that all you want, but yes, we did that.

Which adds to the growing number of reasons for the U.S. to be less respected than we’ve ever been in our history.

We are becoming the bad guys. We blow up little boats showing the footage of it over and over like a fun video game. Our nation has decided that the punishment for drug smuggling (or rather “might be,” “suspected of,” “connected to”,” drug smuggling), is death without a trial to determine actual guilt.

And unless you live in a right-wing news cycle bubble, you’ve seen the dozen or so per week stories of our immigrant community, even those with documentation, being snatched up (some even at the court house where they are “doing it the right way”), to be hauled off to a place that is little more than a concentration camp. Some are there for months. Sometimes entire families. Sometimes just the main breadwinner leaving a wife with kids in tow and not enough income to pay rent. Many are U.S. citizens. Even the undocumented rarely have criminal charges, pending or in their history.

And now your “smart businessman” wants to spend $38-$45 billion on more detention centers. If you voted for DJT, this IS what you voted for. If you didn’t know it, that’s probably because you were too busy “owning the libs” with your cute little hateful remarks and names instead of just listening to half the nation of your fellow countrymen.