Our country has generally worked to help create a more peaceful world.
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Different focus
With the name change from the Department of Defense to the Department of War, the United States is now promoting and declaring that war is acceptable. This goes against what we honor and recognize in the world. We are accepting the killing of our fellow human beings.
Why don’t we instead change the name to the Department of Peace? This would promote conflict resolution through negotiation. It would emphasize that all conflicts can have a nonviolent resolution where all parties express their needs and ensures those needs are met.
We have generally worked to help create a more peaceful world. Why do we now want to tell the world that war is a priority? Working together with respect, dignity and kindness would help create a better world.
– Leonard Ellis, Arlington
Animal cruelty
It is shocking that there is a Texas school with so little supervision that a teacher could feed live kittens to a snake and let children know about it. (Oct. 1, 6A, “North Texas teacher apologizes for feeding live kitten to snake in classroom”) That teacher should not only be fired, she should also be barred from teaching. She should receive a financial penalty and jail time.
– Frankie Andrew, Willow Park
Ultimate sacrifice
In his Oct. 1 column, Bradford William Davis wrote that President Donald Trump aims to silence his opponents. (11A, “Jimmy Kimmel is back on ABC, but Trump still threatens free speech”) Everyone seems to forget that the Biden administration pressured social media to silence and ban people who questioned the origins of COVID-19 or the effectiveness of the vaccine. Military members lost their jobs for refusing the vaccine.
Jimmy Kimmel’s show was preempted because of his egregious lie about Charlie Kirk’s assassin. Kimmel did not give those opposing his political views a voice on his show, unlike Kirk, who encouraged dialogue with people who disagreed with him. It is heartbreaking that so many on the left are outraged by Kimmel’s suspension but are unable to feel the same over a young man who paid the ultimate sacrifice for his freedom of speech.
– Gena Himes, Fort Worth
Partisan respect
President Donald Trump’s governing imbalance is demonstrated by his failure to respectfully respond when Minnesota legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband were assassinated. Flags were not flown at half staff. He did not attend the memorial service.
Compare those abhorrent governing decisions with Trump’s overflowing respect and adulation for Charlie Kirk. He and several government officials flew to Arizona to attend a five-hour memorial service, where Trump spoke profusely about Kirk and hailed him as a martyr.
How can Americans be expected to move past the hatred and animosity for opposing political perspectives when the president governs by playing sides?
– Brent Neuenfeldt, Fort Worth