To the Editor:
Re “A Historic Exodus From Ukraine,” by Sara Chodosh, Zach Levitt and Gus Wezerek (Opinion, March 17):
As we comply with the struggle in Ukraine, we’re horrified by the devastation we see and impressed by the braveness of the Ukrainian folks. As a nation, we’re offering substantial overseas help and army provides to Ukraine. As people, we’re supporting organizations that present humanitarian help.
Our European allies have opened their borders to Ukrainian refugees, many arriving with solely the garments on their backs and with out passports.
Throughout World Warfare II, our authorities was sluggish to confess refugees from the Holocaust. We will enhance on our previous document. It’s time to lower via the crimson tape and welcome a lot of Ukrainian refugees to the US now!
Susan Reisbord
Saul Sternberg
Philadelphia
To the Editor:
The photographs of the dying and destruction in Ukraine appear to have lower extra deeply into the American folks’s hearts than related atrocities elsewhere. Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s authoritarian chief and commander in chief of its armed forces, like Vladimir Putin, is responsible of crimes in opposition to humanity, but American outrage is muted. The identical holds true for many years of carnage on the path of tyrants in Africa; the brutality barely registers on the American empathy scale.
Why such a seismic shift in compassion for the victims in Japanese Europe? Is the slaughter of ladies and kids there any totally different than related unspeakable acts in different settings?
Maybe the reply lies in our ethnicity. At the least 200 million Individuals can hint their bloodline to Europe. Many people see ourselves within the faces of the Ukrainian folks. So, when Kyiv falls, and it’ll fall, all Individuals, no matter their ancestry, should be a part of collectively and vow by no means to relaxation till despots like Vladimir Putin are not a menace to the world order.
Jim Paladino
Tampa, Fla.
To the Editor:
Re “It’s Now Putin’s Plan B vs. Biden’s and Zelensky’s Plan A,” by Thomas L. Friedman (column, March 21):
Western nations mustn’t simply freeze the property of Russia, Vladimir Putin and the oligarchs, but in addition seize these funds and use them to pay for the care of refugees fleeing Ukraine. Afterward, when the struggle is over, use this cash to rebuild Ukraine. There are billions of {dollars} obtainable.
This would possibly trigger Mr. Putin to rethink his technique of demolishing Ukraine’s infrastructure to be able to ship its residents fleeing for security. Mr. Putin needs to be informed this may occur instantly, and it ought to start now. Let him watch Russian property diminish every day he permits this brutal struggle to proceed.
David Baldwin
Petaluma, Calif.
To the Editor:
Re “Warfare Threatens to Trigger a World Meals Disaster” (entrance web page, March 21):
Your article paints an alarming image of the approaching international meals disaster. That disaster is being induced in main half by the sanctions on Russia. There is no such thing as a good cause for them to proceed.
Individuals who suppose the sanctions will drive Vladimir Putin to again down are delusional. In distinction, a meals disaster is a close to certainty.
President Biden ought to let Russia export meals and fertilizer to the world markets. If he fails to take action, we’re meals shortages, doable hunger and political instability in a lot of the world.
I understand that Mr. Biden would regard cancellation of the sanctions as politically unattainable. But when the consequence is a humanitarian disaster over a lot of the world, he’ll bear a serious a part of the ethical accountability.
Jack Harllee
Washington
To the Editor:
Re “Two Refugees Cross Poland’s Border, and Enter Completely different Worlds” (entrance web page, March 15):
If as one human race on this nuclear day and age, we can not, eventually, see previous our numerous pores and skin colours to listen to the pleas for decency within the languages of different folks …
If we can not embrace our “totally different” cultures with curiosity and surprise somewhat than worry …
If we refuse to acknowledge that struggle is by no means a constructive nor a artistic resolution …
If we proceed to attract imaginary borders on our one spherical Earth and ignore our task to look after her …
… Then our murderous self-destruction will make it unattainable to look instantly into our youngsters’s eyes and promise them the current, a lot much less a future.
Tyne Daly
Los Angeles
The author is the actor.
Russian Troopers, Hear Me
To the Editor:
A letter to Russian troopers, from an 80-year-old grandmother who’s Russian Polish American:
What is going to you acquire from murdering your Ukrainian neighbors, who didn’t need struggle?
The place is the enjoyment in destroying an unbiased nation that doesn’t belong to you?
What rewards will you obtain, as Russian cash has misplaced worth?
Individuals world wide hate the destruction you’ve induced. Hundreds of antiwar protesters in Russia won’t respect you.
Get up from being brainwashed by false propaganda from grasping corrupt cash worshipers, who’re warmongers, who lack compassion.
The ghosts of murdered girls, youngsters and defenders of their nation will hang-out your nightmares.
We are going to all die finally, so dwell with peace and love when you can.
Alice Blandy
Nevada Metropolis, Calif.
Perks for Important Employees
To the Editor:
Re “Retire the 9-to-5 Workday,” by Emily Laber-Warren (Opinion visitor essay, Sunday Evaluation, March 20):
It takes a whole lot of “important” employees to make work at home doable. Most if not all of those important employees can not work at home. Many make significantly lower than their work-from-home counterparts and can stay saddled with commute time, gasoline costs, parking charges, and so forth.
I feel that earlier than we rework the system, which certainly must be reworked, we have to assess the wants of those that don’t have any selection however to point out up.
Cops, nurses, grocery retailer staff, supply drivers, postal and sanitation employees, to call a number of, needs to be receiving some commensurate perks for his or her valued providers.
Diane Stonecipher
Austin, Texas
The author is a registered nurse.
When a Jail Sentence Ends, however Not Imprisonment
To the Editor:
“New York Continues to Jail Intercourse Offenders After Sentences Finish,” by Adam Liptak (Sidebar column, March 8), spotlights New York’s coverage of indefinitely imprisoning these intercourse offenders unable to search out housing 1,000 ft from colleges.
Because the lawyer who introduced this case to the Supreme Courtroom, I, like a lot of my public defender colleagues, proceed to problem the imprisonment of individuals for years past their launch dates just because they’re poor and trapped by residency restrictions that don’t improve public security.
One other troubling side of this downside is that in New York Metropolis, the state actively prevents these people from having access to shelter. The town is required to offer compliant housing to anybody in want, however she or he have to be launched from jail to request it. Thus, tons of stay incarcerated (at a yearly price of $21 million) when they need to be free.
As Justice Sonia Sotomayor acknowledged, New York is depriving folks like my consumer, Angel Ortiz, of the prospect to reintegrate with society and their households “primarily based solely on hypothesis and worry” — and it should finish.
Will A. Web page
Brooklyn
Donating Outdated Ties
To the Editor:
Re “What Do I Do With All My Outdated Ties?” (Right here to Assist, March 14):
I gave a few of my late husband’s ties to the highschool athletic division for it to have available for “college spirit” days when staff members had been anticipated to put on a gown shirt and tie, although I’m not sure that is nonetheless normal observe for groups.
I additionally gave some to the drama division. I do know that storage is tight and that full costumes are sometimes ordered for main reveals, however I believed it could be useful to have some obtainable within the theater.
Eileen Bach
Ithaca, N.Y.