The moment I read the title of Marc A. Theissen’s column, “As the toll keeps rising, China must pay for its lies” the word hypocrisy immediately came to my mind. Let me be clear that this is not, for me, a political or social issue. Being a conservative or liberal is irrelevant. But how does one come up with a demand that another country must pay for its lies when, not once in the past three plus years has this same columnist demanded that our current president must pay for his lies, his untruths and more?
Where was Marc Theissen when our current president threw our Kurdish allies under the bus by giving the nation of Turkey the right to attack the Kurds in Syria after the Kurds had fought with us against ISIS for five years and given up eleven thousand of their own lives to help us? Where has Marc Theissen been when on a daily basis, legitimate fact checkers show that our current president spouts falsehoods which have diminished our reputation as a country among so many of our allies around the world? Why does it not bother Mr. Theissen that we have a president who has constantly admitted that he trusts the authoritarian leader of Russia more than he trusts those departments of our government that were created to defend our nation and our people and have proven time and time again that the vast majority of those who work in said departments are public servants that are there for the good of our nation and our people?
It is one thing to argue for or against a political or social issue. It is another thing to ignore a person who proves, by his or her actions that said person is missing an ethical and moral compass. In my opinion, it is time for us to get back to being a community that is there for all of us, a community that is free to speak and behave based upon one’s beliefs but recognizes that those who differ also have these same rights and that, in the end, the most important thing is that we accept another’s differences as we strive to work with our similarities in order to make certain that we remain the United States of America.
Where was Marc Theissen when our current president threw our Kurdish allies under the bus by giving the nation of Turkey the right to attack the Kurds in Syria after the Kurds had fought with us against ISIS for five years and given up eleven thousand of their own lives to help us? Where has Marc Theissen been when on a daily basis, legitimate fact checkers show that our current president spouts falsehoods which have diminished our reputation as a country among so many of our allies around the world? Why does it not bother Mr. Theissen that we have a president who has constantly admitted that he trusts the authoritarian leader of Russia more than he trusts those departments of our government that were created to defend our nation and our people and have proven time and time again that the vast majority of those who work in said departments are public servants that are there for the good of our nation and our people?
It is one thing to argue for or against a political or social issue. It is another thing to ignore a person who proves, by his or her actions that said person is missing an ethical and moral compass. In my opinion, it is time for us to get back to being a community that is there for all of us, a community that is free to speak and behave based upon one’s beliefs but recognizes that those who differ also have these same rights and that, in the end, the most important thing is that we accept another’s differences as we strive to work with our similarities in order to make certain that we remain the United States of America.
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