OPINION:
I was outraged when I heard that three Iranian teenagers, including a 19-year-old Olympic wrestler, were hanged by Iran’s regime (“A wave of executions is feared in Iran after 3 young men were hanged this week,” Web, March 21).
During the Vietnam War. I was a highly trained 19-year-old U.S. Marine who was wounded five times in combat and given the power to defend myself from the communists trying to kill me. That was very different from being led to slaughter by low-down, murderous thugs who should be given a permanent dirt nap and removed from humanity without a second thought.
I ask all the naysayers now railing against President Trump for acting with extreme prejudice against a tyrannical government of sociopaths, what if your children were taken out and killed?
If you can justify supporting Hamas, as demonstrators I saw at a rally in New York the other day do, and you side with our enemies, then you should be arrested as a traitor and exiled to a faraway island in the South Pacific.
During World War II, the U.S. dropped leaflets over Europe to demoralize German troops. Resistance groups in occupied countries distributed leaflets to inspire rebellion. Let’s fill a few dozen drones with leaflets featuring the American flag on one side and words of encouragement and hope to a downtrodden people on the other.
Iran’s citizens should know they are no longer being left alone to suffer.
GREGORY J. TOPLIFF
Aiken, South Carolina
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