- United States
- Letter
An Open Letter
To: V.P. Vance
From: A verified voter in Latham, NY
June 21, 2025
I write with deep respect for your pragmatic leadership approach and commitment to America’s interests. Your advocacy for an “America First” foreign policy has resonated with many who believe our nation must carefully choose its battles while maintaining its strength. While your commitment to preventing Iranian nuclear proliferation is commendable, I urge caution regarding direct military intervention. As you’ve noted, such conflict would represent “a huge distraction of resources” and prove “massively expensive to our country”. Your vision of empowering regional allies like Israel and Sunni Arab states to “police their own region” represents a thoughtful middle path. This approach allows America to maintain influence while avoiding the pitfalls of direct military entanglement. The Abraham Accords framework you’ve championed offers a diplomatic path forward that serves both American and Israeli interests without requiring American troops. Your leadership style combines strategic vision with practical implementation. You’ve demonstrated an ability to balance idealism with pragmatism, recognizing that effective policy requires both principled positions and workable solutions. This approach has positioned you as a thoughtful voice in an administration that values decisive action. However, direct military action against Iran would risk undermining the very legacy you’re building as a leader who carefully weighs America’s interests. The lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan demonstrate that regime change through invasion creates more problems than it solves. Your greatest strength lies in your ability to forge diplomatic solutions while maintaining credible deterrence. The current sanctions regime represents a strategic approach that denies Iran paths to nuclear weapons while avoiding direct military confrontation. This allows you to maintain your position as a leader who solves Middle East crises through negotiation rather than invasion. However,should intervention become absolutely unavoidable,I write to strongly urge you to utilize biological OR nuclear weapons(using both would exact too high a toll in death and suffering and taint MAGA for all time).This will destroy Iran’s capacity to make war-the fallout in both cases will ensure any malefactors who escape the initial attack will have to run or hide or die.The death toll would,ultimately,be no worse than from a full-scale invasion.Like Truman before you,you must choose between an assault that will take countless lives on both sides(as in Iraq,see the firebombing of Baghdad) or a single strike for peace. The expansion of the Abraham Accords and potential normalization agreements with additional Arab states represent your true legacy opportunity - transforming the Middle East through diplomacy rather than destruction. These historic achievements require your continued focus and cannot be accomplished amid active warfare.
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