February 5, 2016 --

The headline for The New York Times lead editorial, January 18, said it all concerning the subject: "A Safer World Thanks to the Iran Pact/" LPR will just note the sentence in the editorial, referring to the seizure by Iran of two U.S. Navy patrol boats: "Iran's hardline military boarded the ships [sic] and released photos of the sailors in custody, a possible violation of the Geneva Conventions.

Missing from the sentence is the word "humiliating" -- between "released" and "photos." The editorial merely remarked that Secretary of State John Kerry and the Iran leadership "moved quickly to defuse the incident." With the humiliating photos to live on in Cyberworld.

LPR offers these words from the conclusion of Federalist No. 62 for consideration by the Obama administration: "No government any more than an individual will long be respected, without being truly respectable...."