I am upset and I am scared. In the midst of the current U.S. clamoring toward war with Iran, I think back to my World War II experience, as an 18-year-old GI landing in an amphibian craft onto the coast of France. We were responding to the French call for help to protect them from the Hitler/German invasion.
All I hear, now, is about the U.S. ( per Bolton and Trump) sending aircraft carriers, thousands of troops, a battery of Patriot missiles, and amphibian landing craft toward Iran, to threaten possible nuclear war and annihilation.
What I would like to hear, and that may be happening, is that Congress is listening and supportive of diplomatic negotiations with Iran. (Gazette, 5/16/19 “Trump’s Iran maneuvers trigger alarm in Congress.”)
It is extremely important to us and for overall world security that we succeed at peaceful means of negotiations to avoid nuclear war between nations across international borders.
Sidney Moss
Northampton