Have you no respect for the Office of President of the United States? At the conclusion of your editorial complaining about President Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations, you concede that his candor might be the best approach “to get the right message across to (North Korean dictator) Kim.” So why did you headline your editorial “Motormouth Trump“? President Barack Obama often gave mealy mouthed speeches to the U.N. and elsewhere, yet you never mustered faux courage to label him “Blabbermouth Obama.” You should be ashamed of yourselves.
— Jack Kenesey, Palatine
Bad policy
President Donald Trump’s comment that the leaders of all countries should put their own countries first is much more disturbing than it seems at first. Of course leaders have a responsibility to serve their countries, but if that isn’t balanced against the welfare of the world as a whole, the results can be disastrous. Isn’t that exactly what’s going on in North Korea right now? Isn’t that what Hitler did?
Nationalism has been responsible for most wars. Let’s move beyond it to a worldview.
— Joyce Porter, Oak Park
Big kids
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un obviously can’t comprehend that when it comes to realizing the difference in the type, number and quality of his weapons versus ours, his do not stand a chance and that a war would mean the end of him and his “kingdom.”
Perhaps he can be best compared to a second-grader, very big for his age, who rules the playground, and any first- or second-grader who gets in his way will be beaten up. After a while, he gets so accustomed to having his way that he tries to bully an eighth-grader, thinking that he can get away with it.
— Larry E. Nazimek, Chicago
