There were two editorial commentaries — “A limited nuclear response would be an unlimited disaster”and “Government has failed us; it’s time for Donald Trump” (Star-Advertiser, Sept. 27) — that illustrate the madness of the Republican Party.
The first article said that “50 leading Republican national security experts warned that Trump possesses ‘dangerous qualities who aspires to be commander in chief, with command of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.’”
The next one stated, “The political, governmental and media elites have had their chance to turn things around and they have failed. Now it’s time for Donald Trump.”
I don’t get this ideology. They know he’s dangerous. Yet they want him elected to do — what? Nuke the world to “turn things around”?
“Stupid is as stupid does,” Forrest Gump said.
Robert K. Soberano
Moiliili
Lawmakers should heed Roth and Prevedouros
Panos Prevedouros and Randall Roth wrote a very thoughtful article (“It’s not too late to make right call on rail,” Star-Advertiser, Island Voices, Sept. 18).
With engineering and legal expertise, these writers assert that legislators and City Council members — not the Federal Transit Administration or the mayor — will decide whether to raise taxes enough to cover the cost and thereby decide rail’s fate.
The authors propose questions that lawmakers must ask, and they offer logical answers to those questions.
Their carefully reasoned arguments are convincing, and they propose positive steps to move forward given the rail infrastructure that has already been acquired or built.
Many Honolulu taxpayers share the views expressed in the article.
How can we elevate the discussion to ensure that our decisionmakers have heard the authors’ voices?
Sandra Anderson
Waialae-Kahala
Oahu bus system seems to be very inefficient
I wonder why the bus system here in Honolulu isn’t more efficient.
As a regular bus user in Waikiki, there have been too many times, after waiting an hour, to have two, sometimes three, buses on the same route following each other — the second one less than half full, the third empty.
Logically, those buses should have been spaced every 20 minutes.
Buses use fuel and drivers are being paid to run the route empty?
Are the drivers responsible? Is it a training issue? How many dollars are being wasted? I don’t think we can afford this kind of waste.
It’s time we do something about this.
Kenneth “K.C.” Loesch
Waikiki
U.N. chief slams Israel but U.S. doesn’t care
Recently, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon rightly declared that “[Israeli] settlements [in the occupied West Bank] are illegal under international law” and demanded an end to the “stifling and oppressive” occupation. But Israel’s law-breaking continues unabated.
About the same time, the U.S. announced a $38 billion gift of military aid to Israel over the next 10 years. What kind of message does this send to the world?
Is there any high moral ground left for “the leader of the free world?”
Bob Miyake-Stoner
Aiea
