January 6, 2020,
Although four of five Americans support your recent action and remarks, I must go on the historical record and object. Please permit me to suggest that Americans and the world need stability. Your action, Mr. President, to execute General Suleimani via drone attack needlessly throws gasoline on the fire of hatred for Americans and their allies.
Your remarks promising to attack and destroy cultural and/or historical sites is unwise, inhumane, and contrary to international law. My understanding is that the military targeting of cultural sites is prohibited by international conventions (signed in Geneva and the Hague).
Isn't your administration aware that the United Nations security council passed unanimously --- unanimously! --- a resolution condemning the destruction of heritage sites in 2017?
That's merely the external damage of your recent action and remarks: instigating further world instability, fueling middle east hatred and revenge, and displaying a deaf-mute disregard --- yet once again --- for the normally applicable standards of law.
The internal damage to America from your recent action and remarks is equally unproductive --- needlessly unproductive. You distract the American public from the imminent impeachment trial by relying on Americans' traditional, nonpartisan support of the president when America is under attack.
Your recent, impulsive action robs Americans' attention to more important core concerns, such as the environment, education, health care, inequality, the environment, teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, judicial reform and access to the courts, affordable housing, the environment, and countless other pressing issues.
Did I mention the environment? It may not now have a lawyer but it will ultimately be our judge.
Finally, your action should have taken place only after sober consultation with Congress --- at least its key members. Your sudden and unilateral action completely undercuts Congress’s constitutional war powers.
This is not a reality show; where is the prudent policy-making machinery of your administration?
In closing, Mr. President: I am constrained to express my opinion that your recent action and remarks are quite simply --- in a single word --- inexcusable. May God continue to bless our United States.