Letters: Biden shouldn’t get second term; What’s the solution?

Biden shouldn’t get second term

In his recent letter, John Diercks made many excellent points as to why we do not need Biden. In addition, there’s our declining health, inflation, border crisis (not to mention the 100,000 overdose deaths, most from fentanyl), and the unrest around the world. Biden is perceived as a very weak leader as evidenced by Putin invading Ukraine, Iran supporting Hamas against Israel, as well as the Hezbollah and the Houthis. Plus China possibly invading Taiwan. One must not forget the terrible withdrawal from Afghanistan.

During his administration, there has also been an increase in crime especially property destruction and non-peaceful demonstrations. We are no longer energy independent, he has seriously depleted our petroleum reserve.

Biden campaigned on bringing the country to together. We are more divided than ever politically, economically and socially.

As our leader, he is to protect the people, which is the opposite of what his policies have done. Our democracy cannot exist if we continue down the path that Biden has set. The recent absence of our Secretary of Defense is an example of the lack of communication and concern for the country that no one in the White House was informed or noticed.

Of concern also is his mental and physical decline during this term.

Plus, his absence from office, he has spent 40% of his time on vacation.

I am very concerned that our country would not survive as a democracy with another four years of a Biden administration.

Linda Lochbaum, State College

What’s the solution?

A proclamation of the United Nations created an Israeli state, but this was not agreed to by the Palestinians. You can’t make two wrongs into a right. It should never have happened. The abuse suffered by the Jewish populations during the world war was inexcusable. Yet the new Jewish nation took over the majority of the land by that decree, and has taken over control of the rest of that land by force.

In this process they have destroyed local villages, taken natural resources, limited water access, limited local business possibilities, displaced many thousands, instituted Israeli settlements and killed or imprisoned many that resisted. In addition there has been an occasional massacre of these natives. The atrocities committed on the Jewish people are now being visited on the Palestinians by the Israelis. Now even more so in Gaza. Hillel’s assertion of the primacy of the golden rule is in shatters.

Inequity, mistrust, fear and hatred feed on one another in cycles of violence and revenge, so fighting inevitably surges every few years.

What can be done? Perhaps in the short term experts from Egypt could take over control of Gaza, just as the other sectors, like the West Bank, could go to the nations that had these areas prior to the 1967 war. With a careful and slow transition it might work.

Converting Israel from a failing theocratic democracy to a full democracy that treats all citizens as equal in rights is a moral and viable long-term goal.

Doug Keith, State College