Biden’s CIA director pick ‘a sterling choice’
The selection of Mr. Burns will reverse the decades of lackluster and mediocre CIA directors, who often have been afterthoughts on the part of recent presidents who have hoped that nothing controversial would reach them from the CIA.
The Mayaguez recapture was not ‘successful’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/the-mayaguez-recapture-was-not-successful/2020/08/13/7002b228-db27-11ea-b4f1-25b762cdbbf4_story.html August 14, 2020 at 5:12 p.m. EDT Regarding the Aug. 8 front-page obituary “Cold War to Gulf War, key…
Trump’s war on whistleblowers
Donald Trump, campaigning in Iowa in 2015, said that “I’ve had a lot of wars of my own. I’m really good at war.” For the past three years, we have witnessed Mr. Trump’s wars on governance, science, national security policy and public service. For the past several days, we have witnessed a new war — a war on whistleblowers that will make it particularly difficult for others to come forward in the future.
NY Times Letter to the Editor
The Democratic debates have virtually ignored numerous national security issues, particularly the bloated defense budget; the overzealous tempo of military deployments; the overabundant overseas bases; the unnecessary modernization of our nuclear weapons; and the troublesome decline of arms control and disarmament. The United States has become the dominant arms merchant in the international arena and has downplayed the important instrument of diplomacy.