Letters: Biden called a warmonger

In October 1962, at age 19, I slept next to the planes with the paratroopers of the famed 82nd Airborne Division. We were waiting to jump into Havana in what would have been World War III, if for President John F. Kennedy.

Russia had placed missiles in Cuba. Kennedy mobilized our military to remove those missiles while he was in daily contact with the Russians, negotiating a way to peace.

I am 80 now. Still grateful for president Kennedy’s love for our troops; grateful that he loved us enough to resolve the rush to World War III by agreeing to remove U.S. missiles aimed at Russia from Turkey if the Russians took its missiles out of Cuba. Which it did.

I voted for President Joe Biden, thinking he might have graduated from his warmongering past to discover a bit of JFK’s heroism for peace. How wrong I was!

Russia, like the United States, has a human right to be free from NATO (U.S.) missiles. Most foreign affairs experts agreed. Most foreign affairs experts predicted for decades that if NATO expanded to threaten Russia, we’d be in World War III. Biden understood that. But Biden does not care. Biden is surrounded by warmongers and fascists from the Project for a New American Century, who deliberately led us into war.

Now the bright spot is Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s peace offer to ensure Ukrainians and Russians that Ukraine will no longer threaten Russia. The U.S. needs to promote this peace.

But last month, Biden’s Secretary of State Tony Blinken was in Israel trying to drum up more arms from the Israelis and our friends in Saudi Arabia (the folks who did 9/11 and bomb Yemen every day) for the war fighters in Ukraine.

There are many reporters now writing and saying that Biden, Victoria Nuland and the PNAC do not want peace.

I wonder, who are these people? They attack us at home by cutting our wages, pensions and close plants. They ship our jobs to slaves in this constant domestic war on workers. And then, they take the domestic war on workers abroad with bullets, bombs and lies. This is their foreign policy.

I wonder, who are these people? Most of them seem to have never had a real job. Most couldn’t care less for working stiffs and our troops. Most of them are somehow the multimillionaire elite who are too proud to fight. And thus, the humble do the fighting.

We do not need decades of more war. We need a new peace movement. We need a new solidarity movement. We need good jobs for all. We need a raise. We need to get along so our kids can live happy lives in happy communities.

Everywhere.

God bless Dorothy Day, Cesar Chavez, Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Kennedy!

Tom Laney

Mercedes

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According to Darrell Williams Sr.’s recent letter (April 6), Arnold Schwarzenegger lied about the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

He did not lie! The definition of an insurrection is “a violent uprising against an authority or government.” That is exactly what happened that day.

To call those insurrectionists “patriot protesters” is a joke. It was a rioting mob, trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power and causing millions of dollars in damage to our Capitol. Their goal was to keep the sitting president in office.

Mr. Williams might wish to live in his fantasy world, but he should watch the videos of that day and face reality.

Dale Stoltzman

South Padre Island