Signalgate was comedy of errors
It’s truly ridiculous to witness the details unfolding in the recent Pentagon Signalgate.
How can the nation’s highest-ranking officials lack such basic security knowledge? Don’t they undergo some kind of orientation or basic training that covers national security basics, including the “do’s and don’ts?” It’s almost comical, like a Monty Python skit.
It’s frustrating to think about the federal workers who have lost jobs or gone to jail for minor security errors while there seems to be no accountability here.
MANOJ KUMAR, ATLANTA
Trump’s recklessness impacts all
Winston Churchill is credited with saying, “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” After Jan. 20, the truth of this statement could not be more clear.
Many Americans willingly ignored the obvious threats to democracy that Donald Trump has long posed out of the apparent belief that having an autocratic strongman in power will somehow bring about quick changes to a system that has so often brought them frustration. As the impacts of the current administration’s recklessness become more widely felt (especially by Trump voters), many realize that maybe it is not such a bad thing to have procedures and checks in place to ensure everyone gets a say in our government’s important decisions.
Perhaps last year’s election can serve to forever remind some people that they should be careful what they wish for.
SANJAY LAL, STOCKBRIDGE
Foreign policy team incompetent
What a fine foreign policy team we have. Trump ticks off our friends (Canada, European Union) and makes nice to our dangerous adversary (Vladimir Putin). Secretary of State Marco Rubio is a novice at foreign relations and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is completely incompetent.
Rubio, like all Cabinet members, says nothing to contradict Trump, and Hegseth emulates Trump by denying and lying about adverse information. Good dang luck to the U.S.
RICHARD V. FULLER, MARIETTA
GOP cowards in Congress need to go
In her most recent AJC op-ed, former Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux rightly observed that in the face of President Trump’s various illegal power grabs, “Congress, which should be demanding accountability, appears to have decided to roll over and play dead.”
I tire of news reports that Republicans in the Senate and House privately admit they despise Trump and what he is doing to our democracy but are afraid to say so publicly. Instead of exercising actual leadership, these cowards wither before the prospect of being “primaried” by opponents recruited by Trump and financed by Elon Musk. By permitting and often even cheering Trump’s abuses of power, they get to keep their cushy Capitol offices and enjoy all their perks — but with no real power, having ceded it all to him. They’ve sacrificed every shred of character, integrity, patriotism and self-respect.
Trump’s spiraling rampage of lawlessness, chaos, cruelty and corruption is not sustainable. Let’s hope when his regime crashes, these spineless GOP pols go down with him.
CHRIS MOSER, STONECREST
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