To the Editor:

My biggest wish for the U.S. is that we find peace with the whole world and lay down “our swords into plowshares.”

The U.S. has been in military conflicts for 93 percent of its existence, and continuously throughout the 21st century. It has delivered death and destruction, not democracy, and has made us less secure and more distrusted and despised in many areas of the world.

January 31, 2018