To the Editor:
Commenting on the terrorist attacks in New York and New Jersey, Donald Trump declared in an interview with Fox News on Monday that “this is only going to get worse.” He added that such attacks “will happen, perhaps, more and more all over the country.”
The very object of terrorism is, of course, to erode people’s confidence in the ability of their government to keep them safe, in order to provoke changes in the government. By seeking to exploit voters’ fears in a moment of crisis, Mr. Trump is only helping the terrorists achieve their objective. This from a man who claims to have the judgment and temperament to be commander in chief.
STEPHEN DYCUS
Strafford, Vt.
The writer teaches national security law at Vermont Law School.
Note from KBJ: Once again, Donald Trump gets the detriment of the doubt rather than the benefit of the doubt. (Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton always get the benefit of the doubt from the likes of Stephen Dycus.) Isn't is obvious what Trump was saying? He was saying that, until we have a president who recognizes (and names) the threat we face, Islamic terrorism is "only going to get worse." Trump is condemning Obama's fecklessness. How in the world can a law professor be so clueless? By the way, it's not the president's job to downplay threats. It's the president's job to inform the citizenry of real threats to our well-being, so that we may be vigilant. Trump will be a far better president in this respect than Obama is or Clinton would be.
