Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Our Secretary of Defense went missing for six days. Even the White House didn’t know he was in the hospital for three days. Secretary Austin admitted that he should have been more transparent. The White House pledges continuing confidence in him.

So who is really running the Defense Department? For that matter, who is running the federal government? It is certainly not President Biden. Whoever it is, is doing everything I would do if I hated the country and wanted to completely transform it.

If I wanted to weaken the country, I would select a cabinet based on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion rather than competence and knowledge. We certainly have had all of the boxes checked in this administration.

I would project weakness around the world. I would start by showing total incompetence in our withdrawal from Afghanistan. I would allow Iranian proxies to attack us with very little response. When they did finally kill our soldiers, I would give them six...