Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor,

Why won’t Europe help Trump in Iran?

As an aged lawyer in Melbourne, I speak with great sorrow about the collapse of public life in our former friend and ally, the United States.

Donald Trump daily gets worse.  He is now talking of bombing people ‘for fun’ and ‘taking’ a sovereign state.  If the chairman of a public company succumbed once to the kind of nonsense that Trump indulges in every day, he would be fired.  If the company failed to act, it would go out of business. 

And yet, the only answer we get is ‘What else could you expect?’.  It is not as if they – and we – were not warned in advance – chapter and verse.

The electors of a nation who tolerate this conduct of a man they have elected as President have abdicated their responsibility to the nation and that of the nation to the world.

Finally, when French ideologues decided to export the Revolution, Robespierre opposed the war on the simple ground that ‘no one likes armed missionaries’.  That truth may be said to be self-evident.

Yours truly

Geoffrey Gibson