Letter: ‘Profiles in Cowardice’
(J. Scott Applewhite | AP) Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, arrives for a markup session Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lee criticized a security briefing on Iran by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other top officials, saying it was "probably the worst briefing I've seen, at least on a military issue," in nine years in the Senate.
If President Kennedy were to come back and update his Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Profiles in Courage,” he would have to add two new chapters for Sens. Mitt Romney and Susan Collins.
If he were to write a companion piece — "Profiles in Cowardice" — it would have to be a 10-volume set to hold 51 chapters.
Tom Owens, Farmington
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