Refusing orders
This concern is indubitably the bottom assault the Democrats have launched but in opposition to President Trump’s insurance policies. As a result of their occasion can’t interact and negotiate with President Trump by way of regular legislative channels relating to use of the Nationwide Guard in main cities, they’ve now stooped to interesting on to members of our navy to disobey orders of their superior officers.
So, how does this play out? A technique is that rank and file members of the Nationwide Guard might understand the video as permission to resolve on their very own what’s, or isn’t, a lawful order from their commanders.
This state of affairs might very nicely lead to gullible younger males, or ladies, being court-martialed and dishonorably discharged from service for refusing to obey an order, as a result of some cowardly senator or consultant couldn’t discover the wherewithal to do the job they had been elected to do.
Lee Lessard
Dracut
Social Safety
It could be fascinating if retired members of Congress had been instructed their pensions could be minimize by 24% the identical day Social Safety was to be minimize. Lots of these people are accumulating giant pensions that they qualify for at age 62 with solely 5 years of service whereas most Social Safety recipients work for years to obtain a a lot decrease payout.
I’m positive they might be screaming and demand motion so this gained’t occur, but Congress continues to kick the can down the street on the Social Safety funding disaster. It’s time for seniors to get up and vote out the individuals in Congress that proceed to take a seat on their palms as Social Safety funding heads for the cliff.
Paul Quaglia
Billerica
Ceasefire
Re: the Related Press article “Israel launches strikes in ceasefire’s newest take a look at” (Boston Herald, Nov. 23): Israel’s strikes had been certainly one other take a look at of the ceasefire with Hamas, however not fairly in the way in which misleadingly implied by the AP.
Hamas has been consistently violating the phrases of the ceasefire, with its failure, greater than six weeks after the beginning of the ceasefire, to return all of the hostages it kidnapped Oct. 7, 2023 regardless of the settlement that it might accomplish that inside 72 hours, being one in all its smallest, albeit extra dramatic, violations.
The one occasion making Hamas pay any value for its fixed violations is Israel, whose enforcement of the phrases supplies the one hope that that ceasefire will endure and result in the disarmament of Hamas and destruction of its terror infrastructure. Until these provisions are enforced, this ceasefire will merely repeat the failures of all earlier ceasefires, main as soon as once more to the rearming and strengthening of Hamas and one more harmful warfare with its attendant devastation in Gaza.
It’s ironic that Israel, whose residents had been the goal of Hamas’
barbaric Oct. 7 slaughter, supplies the very best hope for the
self-induced distress of the individuals of Gaza being changed by regular, peaceable and productive lives.
Alan Stein
Founder, PRIMER-Massachusetts (Selling Duty in Center East Reporting) in addition to PRIMER-Israel and president emeritus of PRIMER-Connecticut
Newton, MA and Netanya, Israel
