- Wednesday, October 29, 2014

What has become of our politicians? With the kinds of uncivil, immature and undiplomatic comments coming from our “leaders” who should know better, it is no wonder that America is losing more and more friends daily and gaining enemies by leaps and bounds (“John Boehner jabs Obama: Bush ’would have punched [Putin] in the nose,’” Web, Oct. 28).

Mr. Boehner, the speaker of the House, sounds like a childish schoolyard bully. By his reasoning, should Vladimir Putin (or really, Boris Yeltsin, at the time about which he is speaking) have punched President Clinton in the nose when the United States and its NATO allies illegally and savagely bombed Serbia in 1999 and invaded and stole Kosovo from Serbia in order to illegally construct Camp Bondsteel there?

With this kind of rhetoric, there is no room for diplomacy — only World War III, which no one will win. Instead, we will all lose.

MICHAEL PRAVICA

Henderson, Nev.

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