Responding to Greg Jayne’s opinion column ” ‘Vietnam War’ lays out hubris of American leadership” (Sept. 24), I think the hubris he speaks of can be more squarely attributed to the U.S. citizen voter.
In 2000 we, the voters, elected a group to lead the country whose record from 2000 to 2008 is this: We were attacked on our shore, invaded Iraq on a whim, started a war in Afghanistan, and had two recessions, one of which would have resulted in a depression if the succeeding leadership had followed this group’s advice.
Fast forward eight years and we re-elect the same group to leadership. Now, 25 percent of us feel it is all right for this leadership to call the citizens “SOBs” and are nearing a catastrophic conflict. Lesson: The citizens get whom they elect. Over 50 percent didn’t vote in the 2016 election. Hubris of the worst kind.
