Still supporting Biden

Bradley Gitz, yes, I’m still “ridin’ with Biden.” Your disingenuous column criticizes a leader who, whether you agree with all his Afghanistan decisions or not, repeatedly addressed the nation, took difficult questions (no, I did not like all the answers, but that’s beside the point), consoled the families of the slain with dignity, and feels the weight of the office and the criticism, justified or not.

He was not in hiding during his campaign nor “AWOL” during the collapse of Afghanistan, which went faster than almost anybody predicted. He focused on getting people out and did as well with that as anyone could have given the bad hand he was dealt. He is deep into “damned if you do and damned if you don’t” territory, and doing his duty nevertheless.

Did he say 300 instead of 300,000? Big whoop. I know what mild cognitive impairment is and is not, and what dementia is and is not, and it is apparent enough to me that our president has neither. He didn’t leak secrets about covert rescue missions, withhold information or utterly fail to get people out (how many Kurds got out of Turkey?) as did the prior administration. There is a line between presidential imperfection and unfitness, and it’s clear which side ours is on.

Your insinuations are nearly as ridiculous as they are unfair. There’s no gold medal for armchair quarterbacking. And the only people who want Trump back are the ones in whose eyes he could do no wrong in the first place.

VIKKI STEFANS

Little Rock