Letter: Fear of Trump is real
Charles Krauthammer’s column on Oct. 5 bashes the Clintons with negative adjectives for several paragraphs. However, his last several paragraphs explain that “we are entering a period of unprecedented threat to the international order that has prevailed under American leadership since 1945.
“At a time of such tectonic instability, even the most experienced head of state requires wisdom and delicacy to maintain equilibrium. Trump has neither. His joining of supreme ignorance to supreme arrogance, combined with a pathological sensitivity to any perceived slight, is a standing invitation to a calamitous miscalculation.”
Paraphrasing his last two paragraphs, it has taken seven decades to build this stable international order and it requires continual, calibrated balancing of alliances and careful signaling of enemies. It could be brought down in one presidential term. “That would be a high price to pay for the catharsis of kicking over a table.”
Diana Nadanyi
Bluffton
This story was originally published November 10, 2016 at 9:21 PM with the headline "Letter: Fear of Trump is real."