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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters to the Editor, July 30 MailTribune.com Writer Posted Jul. 30, 2015 @ 12:01 am Posted Jul. 30, 2015 @ 12:01 am » Social News p bs:newslist StartDate="20121121" EndDate="p bs:datecalc Months="3"" DateSort="1" UseObjects="1" ObjectClass="81" Taxonomywords="2325,665" ExactTaxonomyMatch="1" Image="1" Count="4" --> Poor judgment Obama used very poor judgment in the agreement with Iran. As a result, Iran will have billions of dollars to continue being the world's biggest supporter of terrorism. Saudi Arabia, Egypt and perhaps others will be forced to develop atomic weapons to defend themselves. Obama has put Israel at risk of annihilation because the agreement will allow Iran to have unfettered access to atomic weapons. He could have made a better agreement, for example, one that would have freed the four Americans that Iran is holding as prisoners, one that would have permitted inspections of Iran at any time and would have precluded Iran from ever having atomic weapons. Obama has created the danger that Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and Israel will be forced to go to war against Iran before it's too late. Obama may indeed be starting a war. He claims that if Iran cheats, we'll know it and can reinstate the sanctions. If Iran cheats, we're not going to know it and reinstatement of sanctions ain't gonna happen. It's one stupid and irrational thing after another that Obama has done during his six years as president. I hope America can survive the remainder of his term. Maynard Telpner Talent What to do ? Kathryn Schultz’s article in the July 20 New Yorker titled “The Really Big One” was rightfully the topic of a recent Mail Tribune editorial. The editorial and the original article provide devastating accounts of what will happen when — not if — the “Cascadia subduction zone” lets go. An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 to 9.2 and its accompanying tsunami will affect the entire Pacific Northwest, killing some 13,000 people and displacing up to a million. One FEMA director predicts, “… everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.” Two questions: What should we do to prepare for the event? How do we implement what we decide to do? Measures implemented in Japan have been successful in reducing losses from their frequent earthquakes and tsunamis. They could help us decide what must be done: draconian retrofits of existing buildings and infrastructure, radical code changes for new construction, etc. Implementation is another matter. Our political system is not good at acting on very expensive future problems. But somehow we need to insist that the impending “worst natural disaster in the history of North America,” as Schulz calls it, becomes a prominent part of the 2016 election-cycle debate. Wayne Slawson Talent We have 17 years I have been told we have 17 years or so to turn things around as far as climate changes goes. 17 years is a very short time for a very big job. Are we up to it? Opposing the LNG pipeline is one way to start that big job. It’s a local threat and is indeed right in our backyard. It would produce umpteen tons of methane into our already overtaxed atmosphere. It would threaten ecosystems of innocent animals and fish. It would produce a scant amount of jobs for Oregonians. And even if it is built, how long would it be in use? And then what? Do we, the taxpayers, pay for its decommissioning? Paying for the removal of a pipeline we didn’t want in the first place? . We must stand up and fight while we have this 17-year window. The Pacific Connector pipeline proposed by the Canadian company, Veresen, exemplifies how and why we cannot continue to exert our will over the natural world. We can’t let this Canadian company walk all over us and all over the Oregon that we love and cherish. I urge all of you to join the Campaign to stop the LNG pipeline. 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