Letter to the editor: A chronicle of Biden's failures

President Biden’s disasters are accumulating at an alarming pace. The Biden team has bungled the covid response with financial waste, crushing mandates and misinformation. Biden assured Americans that inflation is only temporary, but it’s now approaching 8%, the highest in 40 years, and shows no sign of abating.

The next burden to befall the American public was the price of energy with the cancellation of plans for the Keystone XL pipeline to cross into the United States. Gasoline has increased 40%, and likely going higher.

Biden’s border policy has welcomed millions of illegal immigrants through our southern border. U.S. taxpayers are footing the spiraling costs for health care, food, relocation and housing for them.

However, Biden’s greatest blunder was the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan before evacuating support personnel and equipment. Biden’s hasty and incompetent withdrawal resulted in American casualties and left behind modern armaments worth billions of dollars and hundreds of Americans to fend for themselves. Compelling images on television showed Afghans clinging desperately to aircraft leaving the Kabul airport.

The Afghan debacle was undoubtedly viewed in Vladimir Putin’s inner circle as a convincing sign of American weakness. They’ve been awaiting that for decades to reconstruct the Soviet empire. Ukraine would be the first breakaway state as it is so rich in agriculture and minerals. Biden’s America would offer little resistance, and we didn’t. Will China’s takeover of Taiwan be next?

Dennis Traeger

Murrysville