If former President George W. Bush was paying attention, Hosni Mubarak’s departure Friday as dictator of Egypt after weeks of peaceful protests shows what a real people’s “regime change” looks like (“Democracy protests bring down Egypt’s Mubarak,” SignOn San Diego, Feb. 11).
The Bush administration’s idea of regime change, as shown by an ill-advised, disastrous invasion of Iraq, has caused nothing but years of misery for Iraq’s citizens and political uncertainty at a cost of billions of dollars and more deficit spending.
I’ll take the Egyptian style any day, anytime.
-- Mark Gracyk, Lemon Grove
Who would have thought that Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg is smarter than all of the generals and admirals in the U.S. military, and his weapon is more powerful than any of those developed by any defense contractor to topple dictators and to bring democracy to the Middle East? Just look what Facebook has wrought. -- Philip J. Butzen, San Diego
The photo that accompanied “Cement-mixer driver falls out of truck, which runs over both legs” (Local, Feb. 11) was astonishing. When we continue to read about the plight of our underfunded and understaffed police and fire departments, the picture showed not less than six police cars and three fire department vehicles on site. There’s no telling how many other public safety units were not in the picture but were also on the scene. How much did this overkill response cost the public? It just doesn’t make sense.
-- Dennis Merchant, Oceanside
One point missed in the commentary “Making the case for 33 rounds” (Opinion, Feb. 10) is that so-called high-capacity magazines are not legal in California. Magazine capacity is limited to 10 rounds maximum. This has been the law for many years. The one exception: if you owned a higher-capacity magazine (over 10 rounds) when the law was passed, you could keep it. -- Thomas Kendall, San Marcos
Thank you for your leadership to a more peaceful world as shown in “Sorry, America has moved on” (Editorial, Feb. 7).
Acknowledging the U-T’s use of personal attack in the past was an act of unusual courage for an institution of power and influence.
I, too, will look in the mirror and make sure that my speaking and even my thinking toward those with whom I disagree is civil and gentle. This doesn’t imply surrender. -- Marshall Saunders, Citizens Climate Lobby, Coronado
It seems no one can see the obvious solution about the homeless problem in San Diego, which may well be to round up the homeless and move them to already-available facilities, such as vacated military bases.
There they could be properly housed and persuaded to take their medications in return for food. The total number of homeless could readily be accommodated, and the facilities could be administered by members of the military, who already are provided appropriate training by the federal government.
And many of those who benefit from medication would be able to do some of the support work needed, such as laundry, cooking, painting and maintenance.
This approach is surely preferable to putting them in prison after the planned court procedure. -- R.J. McClure, San Diego
The letter from Jonathan Clark of New Zealand (Feb. 9) expressing dismay at the condition of the homeless in San Diego should not be taken lightly by city leaders. These administrators have an absence of zeal regarding holding to the humanistic premise that no one should go hungry and everyone should have shelter. They vote readily to spend taxpayer money for stadiums where young men beat their brains out for big money and owners live contentedly, having fleeced the public again. -- Edward Hujsak, La Jolla
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