Keith Steck is a resident of Milton.
When I read the Monday, April 13, Daily State News article about the upcoming annual state Republican Party fundraiser being controversial because Michael Flynn will be the guest speaker, I was shocked. I wasn’t shocked so much to read that the controversial former Trump national security adviser will be the keynote speaker; I was shocked to read that the Facebook invitation states, “Right now — as President (Donald) Trump works tirelessly to bring peace and stability to a troubled world,” and this newspaper did not take exception to it.
To me, this invitation is doubly controversial. The article covered one part of this twofer: the controversy of the invitation of the scandal-plagued former general speaking at the party’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence. It did not mention the second controversy: the invitation’s claim that President Trump is tirelessly working for world peace and stability when, in fact, literally days before, he unleashed punishing bombings on Iran, killed dozens of innocent children and other civilians, then threatened to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages.” You do not spell peace “b-o-m-b-i-n-g”! Worse, the president of the United States of America — by promising to destroy power plants, bridges and other infrastructure critical to the civilian populace — was, in effect, advocating what many would consider war crimes under international law. How shameful that the leader of the United States of America did what he did and said such a shameful thing, and that the Delaware Republican Party invitation effectively ignores this behavior and states the exact opposite!
I will give the party the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps whoever wrote the invitation did so days before it was posted and days before the president made such an outrageous threat against the entire oppressed population of an authoritarian country. But surely, someone in the party hierarchy and review process would have modified the language! Sadly, the Facebook page language remained the same Tuesday, April 14, when I checked it. And I urge this newspaper to point out that the Facebook statement is not correct.
Yet this newspaper never mentioned the hypocrisy. Apparently, no one raised a stink until now about this, at least a stink that made mainstream news. Maybe you should update the article, so Facebook readers and the public at large would know, in case they somehow missed the president’s actions.
Thanks for your attention.
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