{"id":436581,"date":"2022-04-24T01:19:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T22:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/letters-to-the-editor-april-24-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-04-24T01:19:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T22:19:17","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-april-24-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/letters-to-the-editor-april-24-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"#Letters to the Editor \u2014 April 24, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23253aba0f3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23253aba0f3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/letters-to-the-editor-april-24-2022\/#%E2%80%9CLetters_to_the_Editor_%E2%80%94_April_24_2022%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Letters to the Editor \u2014 April 24, 2022&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CLetters_to_the_Editor_%E2%80%94_April_24_2022%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Letters to the Editor \u2014 April 24, 2022&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Shanghai-covid-misery.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>China\u2019s COVID war<br \/><\/strong>Regardless of the recent COVID-19 outbreak and strict quarantine measures there, China\u2019s authorities have, overall, handled the pandemic in their nation pointedly (\u201cShanghai\u2019s COVID misery drags on,\u201d April 19).<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t help but notice how China\u2019s strict handling of its own outbreak, while allowing few rights and freedoms to its people (and maybe even internal\/external big business), likely enabled a relatively short duration of its initial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>However, many Chinese citizens have tasted and enjoyed samples of freedom\u2019s sweetness, either through trans-Pacific <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> or Western images missed by China\u2019s Internet censors. It\u2019s potentially problematic for China\u2019s authoritarian government that those samples cannot be un-experienced.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps with greater democratic freedom can come weaker national security, and vice versa. While I wouldn\u2019t exchange my (Western) freedom, it is still foolish to pretend a national-security sacrifice isn\u2019t being made in exchange.<\/p>\n<p><em>Frank Sterle Jr.<\/em><br \/><em>White Rock, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe\u2019s 2024 hopes<br \/><\/strong>I read in The Post that President Biden confided in former President Barack Obama that he plans to run for re-election in 2024 (\u201cA Biden Win in 2024: Dems in Dreamland,\u201d W. James Antle III, April 21).<\/p>\n<p>This has to be the height of chutzpah. Biden has done more damage to our country in 15 months than any other president did in a full term. Besides, his cognitive decline is obvious to anyone who watches him.<\/p>\n<p>The reason Joe wants to run again is that he believes he is the only one who can defeat former President Donald Trump, whom he feels will be his opponent in the next election.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roval rating is now below sea level, and hopefully Trump will be back in the race. But in the unlikely scenario that he would be facing Biden, the result could put Joe where he should be \u2014 in an assisted living facility.<\/p>\n<p><em>Warren Goldfein<\/em><br \/><em>Mount Arlington, NJ<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>In-flight faith show<br \/><\/strong>As a non-believer and a secularist, I would find a religious takeover of any flight I am on offensive (\u201cOmar in \u2018prayer\u2019 air rage,\u201d April 19).<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to be subjected to Christian hymns, church sermons and services, Hindu incantations, Buddhist chants or Muslim prayers directed at Mecca in the aisle of a plane carrying me to my destination. I don\u2019t care what conservatives say.<\/p>\n<p>Religious people, keep it private. Keep it at home. Rep. Ilhan Omar is right. If there had been a mid-flight, imam-conducted Muslim prayer service on the same easyJet flight, the conservative Christians of this nation would have had a collective cow.<\/p>\n<p>Do unto others as you would have done unto you. The un-Christian and uncharitable denigration of Omar for the legitimate question she posed tells me that Christian extremism is alive and well.<\/p>\n<p><em>Usha Nellore<\/em><br \/><em>Bel Air, Md.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Iran insanity<br \/><\/strong>President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are locked in a terribly misguided \u201cnegotiation\u201d to restore the Iran nuclear deal (\u201cIran puts Israel on notice,\u201d April 19).<br \/>If concluded, this deal would release billions to Iran and enable the production of nuclear arms, further destabilizing the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and Blinken have ignored that Iran refers to Israel as a \u201ctumor\u201d and has repeatedly threatened the destruction of this tiny democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake: This fool\u2019s errand, if successful, will end with massive death and destruction, given the shift in the balance of powers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thomas Birnbaum<\/em><br \/><em>Manhattan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Want to weigh in on today\u2019s stories? 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