Frist’s cries of wolf over Iran are off base

Re “Reining in Iran,” Opinion, Dec. 26

Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) is perpetuating a myth to some people and trying to ignore the reality known by others. There is ample proof that most Arab or Muslim states do not have and don’t want nuclear weapons. Those states pursuing nuclear weapons are influenced by the fact that Israel possesses them. Frist does not address this part of the equation. Many American politicians speak about Iran as though it is some backward nation, not one that’s old enough to be mentioned in the Bible (as Persia).

If America or Israel attacks Iran to deter its nuclear program, it would result in a global war. Many Muslims already feel that the agenda of the United States is the destruction of Islam, and another attack by Israel outside its borders would seal the deal.

JOHN WRIGHT

Monrovia

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Frist is running for president. He wants to scare us about Iran and nuclear weapons. But this is the same Frist, a surgeon, who used a home video of an insensate woman whose brain was a pool of undifferentiated liquid to offer a diagnosis: She was capable of recovering consciousness. He used the powers of his Senate office to usurp the constitutional authority of state courts to pass a ridiculous law empowering federal courts with jurisdiction over a state and private matter.

Iran might indeed be on the verge of a nuclear attack, but Frist is the wrong guy to dash through the village crying wolf.

MARVIN J. WOLF

Mar Vista Heights

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What does Frist mean by “The U.S. needs to act before a regime that has denied the real Holocaust unleashes another”? Can he possibly be thinking of another military debacle in the Middle East? Does any other option come to mind? Perhaps it’s time we hear from some leaders who have actually experienced war rather than these “armchair patriots.”

ELLIS KATZ

Encino