To the editor: Columnist Jonah Goldberg got here near understanding why President Trump is attempting to power one thing, something he can name a peace settlement between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky (“Here’s the key to understanding Donald Trump’s approach to the Ukraine war,” March 4). Goldberg stopped mere inches from explaining Trump’s obsession with being a key participant in any such settlement. Trump’s insistence that Zelensky cave is motivated, for my part, by 15-year-old occasions, when then-President Barack Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize. It seems that Trump is kind of keen to advertise continuation of a conflict that kills hundreds, till such time when he can declare to have stopped it. Then he may also declare the Nobel Peace Prize. His ego and insecurities know no bounds.
David L. Burdick, Ridgecrest
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To the editor: Is it doable that Goldberg is on to one thing? Breaking information: Trump is angling for the Nobel Peace Prize and one other cameo on the quilt of Time journal. He’s solely excited by transactions that may profit him.
Robert Impellizzeri, Moorpark
The author is a retired U.S. Military colonel.
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To the editor: Goldberg’s surprisingly wonderful column is 100% right. Trump’s way of living has at all times been, “simply say.” He has by no means cared about true or false, or proper or mistaken, or the Structure or the legal guidelines. Don’t neglect, he informed the Georgia secretary of state to search out 11,780 votes votes — one other type of “simply say.”
Goldberg doesn’t say what we should always do about all this. I recommend that Home Democrats put together and current correct and persuasive motions for impeachment — and loudly and consistently speak about them — however I welcome different concepts.
Mike Holtzman, San Luis Obispo
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To the editor: Goldberg deserves a tip of the hat, however not a hats-off, on his column on the Ukraine conflict and Trump’s vainness (“Whether Russia invaded Ukraine is not a ‘complicated’ question. Why say it is?” Feb. 25).
Whereas rightly elevating critical questions in regards to the president’s character and function, and the following confusion and obfuscation within the ranks, as officers do the faucet dance, Goldberg doesn’t disappoint, as he rapidly shifts gears to go after his personal boogeymen: the Biden administration and the Democrats.
Questions of false equivalency is perhaps raised at this level, corresponding to condemning Hitler’s brutality after which rapidly leaping to the failures and faults of the Weimar Republic (Germany’s democratic authorities from 1919 to 1933). No matter faults the Weimar Republic had dim compared to the bare evil of Nazism.
And no matter faults the Biden administration had — and the Democrats nonetheless have — additionally pale compared to the brutal dismantling of America’s authorities, even because the administration parrots Putin’s lies, each of that are designed to reinforce Trump’s portfolio.
Goldberg can by no means resist an opportunity to achieve throughout the aisle and lambaste the Democrats and scold Biden, as if that might soften the hideous mess mushrooming within the GOP. I want he would state the case of the corrupt GOP, categorical his disappointment, and go away it at that.
The Rev. Tom Eggebeen, Pasadena
