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I am very disappointed and angry with President Obama over using the Edward J. Snowden affair as an excuse for not meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin (news article, nytimes.com, Aug. 7) when there are so many important issues to resolve.
If Richard M. Nixon could confront Nikita S. Khrushchev in Moscow during the cold war, why can't Mr. Obama address his issues directly with Mr. Putin? All this does is heighten tensions and move toward a new cold war.
Mr. Obama prides himself on his willingness to negotiate "grand bargains" with extremist Republicans. So why is he succumbing to petulance over his inability to imprison Mr. Snowden and not going to seek a more important grand bargain to promote world peace?
This is not what you expect from a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
PAUL M. WORTMAN
East Setauket, N.Y., Aug. 7, 2013
To the Editor:
Frank Bruni's Aug. 6 column, "Striking Olympic Gold," offers a creative solution to a knotty problem. How do we negate Russia's crusade against gays under the Stalinesque leadership of Vladimir V. Putin?
Mr. Bruni's imaginative scenario of rainbow flag-waving does not go far enough. By contrast, the playwright Harvey Fierstein's threatened boycott, in his recent Op-Ed essay, makes more common sense. President Jimmy Carter's precedent in 1980 was the right move for the wrong reason — punishing the Soviet Union for invading Afghanistan rather than for persistent violations of human rights.
Russia should be coerced into humane treatment of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Moreover, by harboring Edward J. Snowden, whom many see as a traitor, Moscow has invited America's retaliation.
Let us subject Mr. Putin and his loyal minions to what they fear most: loss of money and diminished pride while we raise the flag for human dignity and international law.
JOSEPH DORINSON
Brooklyn, Aug. 6, 2013
To the Editor:
Frank Bruni's call for a symbolic gesture on behalf of L.G.B.T. rights at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, in 2014 is brilliant. It brings to mind the "black power salute" rendered by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Subsequently, Mr. Smith said that it was not so much a "black power salute" as a "human rights salute."
The message in Sochi would be equally clear: The people of the L.G.B.T. community should be accorded dignity as human beings. It would be so much more powerful in the homophobic Mr. Putin's backyard. I believe that most Americans would be proud of, and applaud, such a demonstration.
RICHARD S. KOCHAN
Washington, Aug. 6, 2013
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