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 might have modified the course of the battle. I perceive the necessity for proportional responses since Russia invaded, however Ukraine has been preventing with one hand tied behind its again because the 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 Nineteen Seventies. Troopers, translators and ladies who dedicated themselves to us have been left to grim penalties.
Biden’s battle 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 end result.
Raymond Roth, Oceanside
