Letters

To: His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaFrom: Mark Leonard PullenYour Royal Highness,Even though I have extensive brain damage, it shames me that I didn’t realize sooner why Iran remains defiant in the face of America’s might. I was particularly right about Iran’s similarities to North Korea, but I missed this obvious aspect. Both North Korea and Iran have militaries that will kill their citizens in the tens of thousands at once at the orders of the rulers—Iran’s Supreme Leader and North…

To: His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaFrom: Mark Leonard PullenYour Royal Highness,I am disappointed that the Saudi delegation walked out on Benjamin Netanyahu, but not on Iran’s President Pezeshkian. Those walk-outs accomplish nothing useful. Yes, I think the United States’ and the Israeli’s walk-outs on President Pezeshkian were inappropriate. I suppose that I am an inflexible hardliner when it comes to war criminals and terrorists, because I would have sent in the Marines to take every Iranian prisoner.Your Royal Highness, I…

To His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaFrom Mark Leonard PullenYour Royal Highness,I told President Trump the Iranians are equal to or greater in their fanaticism to the 1940s Japanese. The United States conducted a Total War campaign of firebombing Japan’s cities. The civilian death toll in Tokyo alone was equal to one of the atomic bombs dropped in 1945. Japan’s regime refused to surrender even after the detonation in Hiroshima. President Trump’s economic strangulation and Persian Gulf blockade will not secure…