The op-ed “There’s only one way to stop Iran” (Views, Dec. 26) is a treatise promoting war. It talks of Iran’s “bomb program” as if it were a fact when it is currently only speculation. It warns of Iran acquiring “bully” power in the Middle East while suggesting bully power should be restricted to the United States. It fails to recognize the intelligence of the Iranians who know that the offensive use of any nuclear weapon would be fatal for Iran. Worst of all, it suggests that the United States can get away with another pre-emptive strike against a sovereign nation without triggering World War III.

Attempts to lay ground work for an American or Israeli attack on Iran should be rejected outright by Americans just as they would be rejected by the vast majority of readers outside the United States.

Ronald Barbour, Volonne, France

A bad job on the health care bill

If the health care bill becomes law, it will have many seriously adverse effects upon the United States: It will increase the cost of insurance premiums, raise our taxes significantly, add trillions to our already out-of-control debt (during a recession), create a quagmire of inefficient administrative hassle, drive good people out of the medical professions, cause the quality of care to plummet, and put government bureaucrats in charge of private medical decisions.

There is nothing good about this proposed bill and we can only pray that in conference it will stall and never see the president’s pen.