“ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL.”

With 29,000 hours in the logbook and dozens of landings on runway 33 at Washington National Airport, I find recent comments by the President of the United States pathetic at best.

Our leader is embarrassingly shallow and ignorant. It’s sad, if not dangerous, to be led by an incompetent, and therefore, potentially dangerous supreme leader. Of course, calling him an idiot would be unkind or impolite. A lack of intellect, however, does not equate to common sense. Here lies another accident to investigate: How did we get where we are?

Alec Lyall

Middlebury