A long time ago, possibly back in our email days, I said something about Judge Joseph Swallow, one of our local political luminaries back in the 1970s. Uncle Ken dismissed him as mythological because he couldn't find anything about him on the internet, but I distinctly remember him being in the news back in the day, although I hadn't heard anything about him in decades and assumed him to be deceased by now. Well today a letter to the editor appeared in our local paper that was signed:
"Sincerely, Joseph P. Swallow - Former Republican State Legislator and Retired Circuit Judge".
Judge Joe begins his letter with a reference to his military service back in the 1950s, so while obviously not deceased, he is certainly no spring chicken anymore.
The subject of Judge Joe's letter was the recent betrayal of our Kurdish allies by President Trump. The last paragraph sums it up pretty well:
"His betrayal is not only detrimental to our immediate National interest, it has also stained our National honor and trust. Neither his promised sanctions nor political spin, however shrewd, can restore America's stature in the world."
Of course the same thing could have been said about the way our government cut and ran from Vietnam and traded Taiwan for two teddy bears, but few people remember that anymore, and some who do believe it was the right thing to do at the time. I still maintain to this day that Nixon should have been impeached for those two travesties instead of that silly Watergate thing.
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