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Letters to the Editor [LA Times]: Trump’s U.N. speech extolling nationalism was frightening
President Trump’s speech at the U.N. dismissing globalism and praising nationalism endorsed the very ideologies the U.N. was formed to combat.
To the editor: In his speech to the General Assembly on Tuesday, President Trump called for rejecting everything the United Nations stands for and a return to nationalism. Great.
This is what comes from someone who is ignorant of history — and fairly recent history at that. It was nationalism that brought us the two most catastrophic wars in human history. It is nationalism that has been at the root of many conflicts since then.
The U.N. was created to combat this most destructive of ideologies. For the most part, it has been succeeding, but in small, incremental, not often seen ways.
Now, the man in the White House wants to throw it all away. And for what? Self-aggrandizement? Profit for defense companies? Or just to give fodder to his followers?
Stephen McCarthy, Monrovia
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Stephen McCarthy “gets” it. Unfortunately, Trump, the GOP, and their enablers don’t!
Will the electorate “wake up” in time. Or, will we repeat the worst mistakes in history with America as the main culprit?
PWS
09-26-19