To the editor: President Biden is proverbially a day late and a greenback brief in authorizing Ukraine to launch U.S.-supplied missiles into Russia.
Why now? A 12 months in the past or six months in the past, this is able to have modified the course of the struggle. I perceive the necessity for proportional responses since Russia invaded, however Ukraine has been preventing with one hand tied behind its again for the reason that starting.
These delays solely reinforce the picture of the US as a dropping ally. Iraq and Afghanistan are affected by our poorly executed withdrawals after years of sacrifice by their individuals and by our troopers. Vietnam was deserted to the communists within the Seventies. Troopers, translators and ladies who dedicated themselves to us have been left to grim penalties.
Biden’s struggle calculus is according to generations of American presidents whose low-risk, low-return methods have created a extra harmful world. The lesson from that is that trusting U.S. politicians can yield the other of our desired long-term final result.
Raymond Roth, Oceanside
