Do I want Kamala Harris to be president of the United States? No, but we have to have a president. Our constitutional system and national security require it. So to repeat my focus of a couple of weeks ago, I am less concerned about Joe Biden’s increasing obvious incapacity as it relates to the 2024 Election than I am as it relates to America’s current, urgent need for a president who can function as such.

Kamala Harris is the elected Vice President – and she is first in line if the president is incapable of being president all day every day.

I raise this because we are closer to the outbreak of major war than we have been in decades. Iran is patently on the cusp of constructing nuclear bombs, if they have not constructed some already, which is entirely possible.

Part of the reason we cannot say for sure is addressed in a Wall Street Journal editorial this morning relating that the Biden administration has stonewalled Congress on statutorily required updates about the state of Tehran’s nuclear program.

Under a law that Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) sponsored, U.S. Intelligence Agencies are supposed to provide Congress with semi-annual reports on Iran’s nuclear activities. What’s more, if our spy agencies assess that Iran has reached certain critical benchmarks on the march toward developing a nuclear weapon, Congress is supposed to be notified.

The Biden administration has been ignoring these obligations for over a year – and its director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, has provided no satisfactory explanation of this dereliction.

Meanwhile, the International Atomic Energy Agency recently censured Iran for both failing to cooperate in the inspection regime and escalating its enrichment activities. The IAEA is a U.N. watchdog and, unsurprisingly, not a very aggressive one.

Yet even it was moved to act because it surmised that, by May of this year, Iran had increased to 313.3 pounds its stockpile of fuel enriched up to 60 percent purity.

I believe 313.3 pounds would be enough for at least two conventional nuclear bombs. And note that in nuclear enrichment, the hard part is the early stage – beginning the process of separating the small quantity of the fissile uranium isotope (U-235) from common uranium (U-238). As enrichment levels increase, it gets easier to achieve higher enrichment levels. That is, it is much harder to get started, or progress from, say, 3 percent to 10 percent, than it is to get from 10 to 20 percent (which is considered “highly enriched” uranium). And it is less difficult to get from 60 percent (where Iran was said to be just a few weeks ago) to 90 percent, which is weapons grade.

The Journal reports that the Biden administration initially opposed the IAEA’s censure initiative before going along with it at the behest of European allies who are still trying to uphold the shards of the Obama-Biden administration’s counter-constitutional Iran nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. That would be the same JCPOA that Trump rightly disavowed (after over a year of dithering) but that Biden has been pleading with the mullahs to revive since taking office.

Biden’s initial opposition to the IAEA censure is mind-blowing in and of itself: IAEA inspections were the feature of the JCPOA that the Obama-Biden administration assured us would prevent Iran from cheating – and that, naturally, the Obama-Biden administration started watering down, for the benefit of the world’s leading state sponsor of anti-American terrorism, soon after the JCPOA went into effect.

It would be irrational to draw any conclusion other than that Biden is stonewalling Congress.

Or, should I say the Biden-Harris administration is stonewalling, since it is anything but clear at this point that the elected president is making executive-branch decisions.

The stonewalling must be happening because Iran either already has become a nuclear-armed state, or is about to become one – i.e., Iran has so advanced its program that it cannot be rolled back absent dismantling, voluntary or otherwise.

The administration won’t make this admission, just four months before the election, particularly given President Biden’s vow – for example, in the Oval Office on June 28, 2021 – that Iran would “never get a nuclear weapon on my watch.”

If we were given an accurate assessment of Iran’s progress, the Biden-Harris administration would have to do something serious about it.

The administration doesn’t intend to do anything meaningful –  just as it has done nothing about the fact that Iran-backed Hamas has been holding American hostages, along with scores of Israeli hostages, since the jihadists’ barbaric October 7th attack on Israel.

Meantime, as Israel struggles to complete combat operations against Hamas in Gaza (while the Biden-Harris administration slow-walks arms shipments to Israel that have been approved by Congress), the Houthis — Iran’s proxies in Yemen — continue what has become a major campaign against shipping in the Red Sea that U.S. Navy sources tell the Associated Press is “the most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II.”

Two days ago – as recounted in a Foundation for Defense of Democracies report – the Houthis attacked a U.S.-flagged container ship in the Gulf of Aden. Between Hamas’s launch of the war and February, Iranian proxies in Yemen, Iraq, and Syria attacked American troops and military installations 170 times.

And Iran’s Lebanon-based forward militia, Hezbollah, armed with well over 150,000 Iranian manufactured missiles that make Hamas’s arsenal look like amateur hour, persists in daily cross-border attacks that have rendered northern Israel uninhabitable (over 90,000 Israelis are displaced).

Just a week ago, the Long War Journal reports, Hezbollah launched more than 200 rockets and 20 drones at Israel on a single day July 4th).

Three days later, an American citizen was among those seriously injured when Hezbollah fired rockets and anti-tank missiles at Israel.

Existentially speaking, Israel must finish off Hamas as a fighting force, it cannot abide Hezbollah’s border war, and it cannot tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran. What’s more, China and Russia are aligned with Iran, which is also a major backer of Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine.

China is stepping up military activity in the Far East as it contemplates an invasion of Taiwan, mindful of the fecklessness and incoherent Biden-Harris White House.

The world has gotten very dangerous. War is ongoing in the Middle East and Europe, but a much wider, deadlier war – maybe more than one – is a clear and present danger.

How long can the United States go on without a functioning president?