19 April
2017
Rep. Dana
Rohrabacher,
101 Main
Street #380
Huntington
Beach, CA 92648
Dear
Congressman,
Re: Wrong
Way Armada
Are you a
patriotic American, sir? I have no doubt but that you think of yourself as
such. Does it not embarrass you, then, nor raise your ire, to witness such
staggering incompetence on the part of your president* and his administration?
Or was it a choice to lie to the American people? In response to the latest
North Korean saber-rattling, Trump chose to rattle a saber that turned out to
be nothing but a rubber sword, bleating about sending in an aircraft carrier
“armada” to demonstrate American strength and resolve. His lie was later reaffirmed
by his military and intelligence chiefs and, publicly, by his press secretary.
Trump’s “armada”,
we learned days later, was hundreds of miles away and headed in the opposite
direction.
What are
the North Koreans to make of this? Our allies in the region? The rest of the
world? What do they think of the pouting president Trump standing there with a
limp, er… weapon in his hands? Of the disarray of his administration? Of the
deliberate lies or at the least the misinformation passed on to the world by
his military? Does our country not look weak and ridiculous in the eyes of the
world?
Here’s my
point: is it not time for some bold Republican to stand up to this man and
speak the truth that is obvious to the rest of us—and to the world at large? To
point out that this would-be emperor has no clothes? That he is absurdly,
dangerously out of his depth in the Oval Office? That his ignorance and
incompetence, if not his overweening and ridiculous ego, disqualify him from a
position from which he can wreak serious and lasting damage on the world? Is it
not time for just one of you to take a public stand, out of patriotism rather
than party loyalty?
Could
that man be you, Congressman? Are you willing to step up and acknowledge the
obvious, and speak out before still worse things happen? Are you willing to
lead, rather than follow the flock of seemingly suicidal sheep? As your
constituent, I ask you to consult with your common sense and conscience. Enough
is more than enough. Trump’s wrong-way armada proves the point.
Respectfully,
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