Letters to the editor for Saturday, Aug. 28: Biden not cognitively able to lead

Biden not cognitively able

Those of us that have enough gray in our beards remember Joe Biden in his prime. He was a laughingstock then, never known as the brightest light bulb around. He had to drop out of the Democratic Party's primaries in the late 1980s for lying about his education and plagiarizing speeches of a British politician.

Today, Biden is older when assuming office than Ronald Reagan was leaving office. And again, we graybeards remember the accusations made by Democrats that Reagan was mentally unfit for office.

If the last six months, culminating with the criminal actions in the Afghanistan exit, illustrate anything, it has become obvious to anyone not drunk on the blue Kool-Aid, that Biden is not mentally fit to carry out the duties of president of the United States. A recent Rasmussen poll shows that a majority of American voters believe Biden is incapable of performing his duties and, in fact, believe others are actually running the show.

The scary thing is Kamala Harris, an extremist left wing politician that is more in tune with Mao than Jefferson, is waiting in the wings.

James Thrasher, Cottage Grove

Bring back the American conscience

Charles Dunaway’s excellent guest view observes that all current U.S. military engagements “are blatant violations of the U.N. Charter.” Sadly true. 

We must also realize that this disgraceful national lawlessness goes far beyond current operations and includes all our military actions since the U.N. Charter was signed in 1945 intending to end war on earth. 

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Its Article 2(4) prohibits “the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.” A treaty obligation of the United States, this is “the supreme law of the land” under Article VI of the Constitution. All our “regime change” aggressions are therefore impeachable “high crimes.” Nearly every administration has been guilty, since our covert operations using CIA, USAID, Special Forces, mercenaries, drone assassinations and suffocating economic sanctions have continued unabated out of public sight.

Seymour Hersch reported that we are “conducting war” in 76 countries. AFRICOM is wildly metastasizing to control rare earth minerals for military and consumer microelectronics. Desperate Central American refugees gather at our gates from countries we have ruined. The immigrant flood into Europe followed our wanton destruction of well-developed socialist Libya where displaced Africans had found comfortable refuge.

American awareness and conscience must awaken.

Jack Dresser, Springfield

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