Opinion: In today’s pages: Obama’s naivete, Clinton’s campaign, Lakers love
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Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John R. Bolton calls Barack Obama naive:
Barack Obama’s willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue states such as Iran and North Korea ‘without preconditions’ is a naive and dangerous approach to dealing with the hard men who run pariah states. It will be an important and legitimate issue for policy debate during the remainder of the presidential campaign.Consider his facile observations about President Kennedy’s first meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in Vienna in 1961.
Columnist Rosa Brooks compares Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign with President Bush’s Iraq strategy. And columnist Patt Morrison wonders why L.A. didn’t preserve the site where Bobby Kennedy was shot 40 years ago.
The editorial board urges Bernard Parks and Mark Ridley-Thomas to focus on real issues in the five months before their run-off election for Board of Supervisors. The board also thinks an LAUSD teacher walk-out is a bad idea, even if it’s born of legitimate grievances. Finally, the board doles out some Lakers love and waxes nostalgic about the last time the team faced off against the Celtics.
On the letters page, readers discuss Joel Stein’s column urging old people to get over their squeamishness and support gay marriage. Huntington Beach’s Betty Holden says, ‘I resent Stein’s denigration of senior citizens,’ but Camarillo’s Sean Ragan thinks, ‘Stein definitely has me pegged.’
*Photo of the site of the Kennedy shooting, courtesy The Times.