Steve Witkoffs diplomatic failures and more: Letters to the Editor May 4, 2025

Despite the fact that I am and always will be an avid Trump supporter, I find myself agreeing with Douglas Murray’s negative opinion of Steve Witkoff ’s weak diplomatic skills (“Foreign policy failure,” PostOpinion, April 30).He may be a superb real-estate negotiator, but dealing with murderous villains who have no regard for how many of their citizens are killed in order to achieve their goals is clearly beyond his pay grade.In real estate, there is the profit motive that Witkoff understands and has expertise in, but diplomacy is a different ballgame — one in which he’s not capable of playing.I cannot help wondering why Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the one Cabinet member who got the vote of every Senate Democrat during confirmation because of his demonstrated integrity, ability and experience, is not put in charge of these high-profile negotiations.He has ample experience dealing with these nefarious characters and will know how to negotiate with them.Seymour Srulowitz, Englewood, NJAfter being raised by diehard communist parents, David Horowitz took up the mantle of radicalism, edited Ramparts (a radical magazine that was rooted in communism) and befriended Huey Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party in the 1970s (“Conservative commentator dead at 86,” April 30).Horowitz grew disenchanted with the radical movement and founded Heterodoxy, a monthly journal combating the folly of the radical left’s political correctness.

The goal of Horowitz’s Heterodoxy was to awaken conservatives to how vicious the political left is.The conservative movement just lost a heavyweight.R.I.P., David Horowitz.Dan Arthur Pryor, Belvidere, NJKudos to President Trump for inviting Gov.

Gretchen Whitmer onstage to speak during his speech to the Michigan National Guard (“C’mon up here, Gretch,” April 30).This shows that Republicans and Democrats can work together because there are more common-ground issues than the extreme wings of either party want to admi...