Letters to the Editor | June 17, 2026

President Donald Trump insisted upon a perfect resolution to the war he started against Iran. He no doubt was ignorant of the aphorism “perfect is the enemy of good.” Barack Obama‘s administration labored for two years to obtain a “good” but not perfect agreement with Iran’s leadership. It guaranteed multiple unscheduled inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities to assure the world that Iran was not enriching its limited supply of uranium to “weapons grade.” More importantly the Iranians agreed to never “build, develop, or acquire” nuclear weapons. Today, our government will be most fortunate if the Iranians will allow reinstatement of the terms of its 2015 agreement. An incompetent Trump, already humiliated by Iran’s leadership, talked tough but is going to bend the knee and write the ayatollah a big check for $350 billion (for the families of the women and schoolchildren our missiles killed plus funds to rebuild Iranian infrastructure) to get Iran to agree, for a second time, to terms that John Kerry and others negotiated in 2015. If the $350 billion is paid it will exceed by 875 times what the Obama government returned to the Iranians. Any way one looks at it, the con artist who came to Washington claiming to be a superior negotiator and “dealmaker” has shown himself to be a deal-breaker and a corrupt loser after wasting $50 billion to prosecute an illegal war. His insistence upon what only he could define as “perfect” has been an impeachable travesty.

David Kahn, Boca Raton, Fla.

I ask Sens. John Fetterman and Dave McCormick to challenge President Donald Trump’s repeated claims of election fraud and his threats to our election integrity.

Even before his first election, Trump refused to say whether he would accept the election results unless he won. He has repeatedly made false claims of fraud, without any evidence of these claims. Multiple lawsuits to challenge election results that favor his opponents have failed. He encouraged a violent insurrection to remain in office.

Recently, he refused to provide evidence for his fraud claims, stating that the evidence was obvious. He is clearly covering up the fact that no such evidence exists, that these claims are self-serving fabrications. His crude denigrations of those who insist on the truth reveals his desperation.

Trump is using these claims to justify limiting our voting rights. Please stop this tyrannical power grab. Don’t be a party to the end of our republic.

Mark Schenker, Blue Bell

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