Letters: Donald Trump’s war
Published on March 7, 2026.
The author reflects on the contrast between Nick Anderson's and Dana Summers' political cartoons on the March 5 Opinion page and Donald Trump's rhetoric regarding the war in Iran, suggesting that this is Trump's war, not Congress' or the public's, except for Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and a handful of hard-right hawks in Congress. The author argues that the president's rhetoric demonizes immigrants, who commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens and contribute to population growth and economy, is an equivalence between violent crime and immigrants. He also criticizes newspapers for publishing misleading headlines suggesting that police choose to shoot unarmed, harmless people over their officers' actions. Accurate headlines matter to public understanding and trust.
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