January 4, 2017
Dear Senator
Feinstein,
I do not understand
what the U.S. policy is regarding North Korea's nuclear capabilities. According
to news reports, North Korea has nuclear missile strike capability on major
California cities, including Los Angeles and San Francisco. Seattle may also be
in strike range capability of North Korean Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.
I do not understand
why the U.S. has allowed the dangerous North Korean government to develop, test
and ready nuclear missiles capable of striking the U.S. It seems to me this is a failure of leadership
by the U.S. government.
Please share with
me what the Senate is doing to protect Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other
cities at risk of attack by North Korea. Thank you for an email response to
Sincerely,
James Patterson
Member California
State Society
Life Member
American Foreign Service Association
Supporter Stanford
University
Highlights in
American Foreign Relations History
January 3, 2017
1993, President
George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the second
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
1946, William
Joyce, the pro-Nazi radio propagandist known as "Lord Haw-Haw," was
hanged at Wandsworth Prison in London for high treason.
1959, Alaska became
the 49th state as President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation. See
Miller Center for Foreign Policy of the Eisenhower administration.
1977, Apple
Computer was incorporated in Cupertino, California, by Steve Jobs, Steve
Wozniak and Mike Makkula Jr.
1980,
conservationist Joy Adamson, author of "Born Free," was killed in
northern Kenya by a former employee.
2007 Former US
President Gerald R. Ford was laid to rest on the grounds of his presidential
museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, during a ceremony watched by thousands of
onlookers. See Miller Center for Foreign Policy of the Ford administration.
2007 Four Americans
and an Austrian abducted in southern Iraq spoke briefly and appeared uninjured
in a video delivered to The Associated Press. (The men, security contractors
for the Crescent Security Group based in Kuwait, were later killed by their
captors.)
2012 A gas pipeline
in central Syria exploded; the government blamed "terrorists" while
the opposition accused officials of playing on fears of religious extremism and
terrorism to rally support behind President Bashar Assad.
2016 Saudi Arabia
announced it was severing diplomatic relations with Shiite powerhouse Iran amid
escalating tensions over the Sunni kingdom's execution of a prominent Shiite
cleric.
Jim Patterson note:
If the U.S. had not committed 8 years of foreign policy folly (See Obama/Clinton
administration), voter demand for a robust, considered and American foreign
policy would not have produced the Trump/Pence administration.
That note reminds
me of this quote:
"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (1889-1951).
About Jim Patterson
Jim Patterson is a life member American Foreign Service Association, member Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Member California and New York State Societies, Associate Member Korean War Veteran's Association, Member U.S. Philippine Society, Fraternity of Alpha Zeta, Life Member Associates of Vietnam Veterans of America, Friend of the Israeli Defense Forces, member American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and DACOR. Mr. Patterson is a Washington DC based writer and speaker who travels on assignments internationally. Contact JEPDiplomat@gmail.com for assignment availability.
