Dear Editor, 

The Delta Variant is causing a major setback in our economy and our ability to go back to “normal”. And there is a consistent 10 to 12% of people in the healthcare system and emergency responders, who resist getting the vaccine. Blame Biden. He’s in charge.

Joe Biden made the tough decision to finish the war in Afghanistan. The pull out of troops from Afghanistan was rough. We left many behind and it took too long to vet the “allies” we hoped to extricate. Blame Biden.

Actually, on second look, much of the blame for where we are today lies with Trump, the amateur who could have levelled with the American public twenty months ago when he knew the virus was airborne and spread easily. He blew it. He didn’t level with the public, and thus an ecosystem of disinformation was born.

I wonder how many of the now over 700,000 dead in the US from Covid could have been avoided had he taken it seriously, instead of hiding his head in the sand. Do you remember the amateur saying about 16 months ago that it would be gone by Easter…it would just vanish with the warm weather. He had the opportunity to ask Americans to care about each other and put on a mask. No, the amateur had to stand tall and rip off that mask like he was impregnable. It was a hoax, remember? Then he caught the hoax. Before leaving the White House, he and Melania got the vaccine in secret. In secret. What does that say?

And on Afghanistan, Trump basically gave the Taliban what they wanted… a terminal date when the US would leave. His agreement was, just don’t shoot at us till we are gone. Then, after giving up whatever bargaining points the US had left, he handed it off to Biden. Good luck!

It also turns out that Trump and his fellow amateur, Steven Miller, resisted vetting Afghan allies, and thus created a major bottleneck that kept the US from evacuating these important allies sooner. Biden was blamed for that, too. Biden and his crew managed to evacuate over 120,000 allies and friends in that short window, a small success in itself.

When Obama was elected president in 2008, I predicted that very soon, many would be angry with him because he couldn’t fix everything. Now it’s Biden’s turn to be blamed for everything. But, is it really his fault?

Bill Thibedeau 

Gilpin County