Letters to the editor

We must stop complaining and start motivating people to take action. People need to take action before it is too late! Biden and his administration have already gone too far. The tyranny must stop.

You are in a position to change the conversation about what's happening in America! With enough support across the country, we can take the necessary actions to save our people from Afghanistan and regain control of our country.

Our people are still dying in Afghanistan, and Biden is still the “President.”

We the people! No man left behind!

From a 5-Battle Star WWII Marine looking to earn a sixth

Robert Batey

Mt. Pleasant

A letter from Major Hasan

It seemed nearly everybody had turned against Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. for his ill planned Afghanistan defeat.

The disaster is embarrassing and humiliating for America but lo and behold a major supporter came forward.

Yes Major, like Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, who had treated soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan for PTSD. Nidal penned a note for his attorney to give to Taliban leaders.

It read in part, “We have won!!!….All praises be to all mighty Allah! Congratulation’s on your victory over those who hate for the Laws of All-Mighty God to be supreme on the land. I pray to Allah that he helps you implement Sharia Law fully, correctly and fairly. ……It is to All-Mighty God we give thanks”.

If you don’t remember that name, Hasan shouted “Allah Akbar” (God is greatest) just before he started shooting up Fort Hood killing 13 and wounding 32.

It was only months into the Barack Hussein Obama and Biden occupation of the White House.

Leland Graber

Wayland

No vaccine for this delusion

Many thought we had turned the corner on the COVID plague, but it turns out we only just went around the bend. Still pulsing in my memory is this image, reported by a doctor: an idiot in his final hours, dying of this disease while still denying that it exists.

We could write that denial off to febrile delirium, but that same excuse cannot obviate the blame he deserved for eschewing proper healthcare and thereby assisting the virus to thrive and mutate, delivering Delta to darken our doorway, every one of us.

Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare's contemporary and for a brief time, his rival, created a dramatic protagonist called Tamberlaine, a medieval Asian empire-builder and monster, who arrived at the end of his life, feverish, hallucinating Death as a personal presence creeping up on him, and, still burdened by the delusion of his own physical invincibility, imagined that so long as he kept his imperious attention on that apparition, Death would not dare approach him.

You can imagine how that turned out. But the people -- let's face it, the Republicans, for so they mostly are -- who now face an impersonal, invisible death, creeping up on millions of Americans, are now, as they have been for almost two years, burdened with a delusion savoring very much of Tamberlaine -- a symmetry of Tamberlaine: if we imagine, if we believe, that the COVID plague is not real, then it dare not approach us. How do we imagine that will turn out?

Scott Hartley

Fairfield

Strengthen the power grid

We must do more to strengthen our power grid against an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) event. Such an event can result from an attack by terrorits or by another country (e.g. China may already have the capability,) or it can occur naturally. It could result in devastating loss of life. There is disagreement on this, but why take chances?

We should also have a ground-based GPS back-up system, (like Russia has,) or we could lose internet at the least in an anti-satellite attack.

Alvin Blake

Ottumwa