ALLEN BUCKLEY, SMYRNA
Columnist wrong in blaming the disaster in Afghanistan
Wow, it wasn’t long before Patricia Murphy got on the Trump train based on her AJC column on Aug. 18. She says the cause of the disaster in Afghanistan is that senators are not doing “what they are supposed to do”. In the past 20 years, 12 have been under Republican control. During the eight years under a Democratic president, they complained about the lack of bipartisanism, followed by efforts to thwart the programs proposed by the Democrats – deja-vu in 2020. Now it is the Democrats to blame for everything. Like most Americans, we are saddened that the Taliban took over the country in record time. That is, if Trump had withdrawn our troops, they would be singing his praises while also blaming the Democrats for allegedly trying to block that withdrawal. The way I see it, the US authoritarian dictatorship is alive and well, and democracy is suffering a slow death just because the GOP is determined to destroy our country too.
SUSAN MATEJA, DECATUR
Construction problems at the Vogtle plant damage taxpayers
The latest news from the Vogtle plant is about more delays and more cost overruns. The Nuclear Supervision Commission is now finding further construction errors with construction deadlines and budget figures being exceeded. Any critic of this troubled, multi-faceted nuclear swamp is right. Every claim and every promise of the energy supplier was broken.
The cascading costs are passed on to the Georgians by our corporate Georgia Public Service Commission. Unknown millions have already been withdrawn from Georgia’s seniors, school taxes and others and used to fund shell games, all based on the now apparently false claim of “cheaper electricity” in the future. It’s a dinosaur-scale mess that needs more research and has a lot of sunlight on it.
ROBERT SEARFOSS, ATLANTA
Climate modeling and weather forecasting are not the same
Subject: In the letter, “The Real Threats to the US Is Government Control, Debt” (Readers Write, Aug. 19), we need to repeat the same points regularly to combat misinformation and misunderstandings.
The author notes that “many people are understandably skeptical of 50- or 100-year climate predictions when we cannot predict tomorrow’s weather”. We need to repeat the point that weather forecasting and climate modeling are very different, and climate modeling can certainly be done with a much higher level of confidence than weather forecasting.
You may not be able to predict exactly where in the river a water molecule will be in the next minute or two, but you know for sure where the river is going.
CHRIS JONES, CONYERS
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