President Trump makes terrible decision
With his stunningly ill-advised decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, the president has honored a campaign pledge. He has also dishonored our nation.
The United States will now be one of just a few outlaws which acts so as to deny the effect of man-made climate change. Additionally, Mr. Trump has dangerously signaled to the world that any agreement we sign is not worth the paper it is written on, that it is only valid so long as the president who executed it is in office.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel had it right in stating that her country can no longer rely on us as a steadfast ally for any purpose: that Europe must go it alone, our president falling to recognize that we will need our allies in the future.
The prospect that this action is in concert with a policy of “America First” is laughable. This is “America in Retreat.” These are heady days for the leaders of Russia and China, to whom we are ceding the leadership of the world. Woe is the United States of America.
Oren M. Spiegler
Upper Saint Clair