Letter: Carry a big stick but...

Teddy Roosevelt urged "carry a big stick" to exemplify American might. Trump seems to be invoking TR's motto but both Trump and TR didn't reckon with something stronger than a "big stick": ideology. History and experience are replete with examples that war ("big stick") solves nothing if ideas are unaffected. It's education and information like what the Voice of America in all of its metamorphoses did for promoting new ideas and education to populations from Europe to Latin America to Asia and Africa. When will we learn that you can bully people with a "big stick," but you can't kill an ideology without information and education!