Mel Ladousier: Iran deal smacks of appeasement
Re: “Reject deal and let Iran shoot first” (Letters, Aug. 11): I was part of the Triad of Nuclear Deterrent Forces for the last 20 years of the “Cold War” with the USSR. Our national defense policy was commonly known as “Mutually Assured Destruction,” which guaranteed the USSR that an all-out nuclear retaliatory strike against them would follow any attack on us or our allies. That policy worked. No American casualties. No war with Russia. Why not do the same with Iran, North Korea and any other would-be nuclear terrorist country? Would it not be wiser to spend money on a nuclear alert force than to spend billions in nickel-and-dime wars which costs American lives.
The Iran deal is virtually the same as the North Korean deal negotiated by the Carter administration, worthless. Where did “Appeasement” get us with Hitler’s Germany.
Mel Ladousier, Merced
This story was originally published August 12, 2015 at 11:06 AM with the headline "Mel Ladousier: Iran deal smacks of appeasement."