Pointless makework

A nuclear Iran and an America $136 trillion in debt makes anything else into pointless makework.

If you turned on your television, you might think that the biggest issue facing our country is 20-year-olds stealing their mothers’ guns, or illegal immigration, as if we have never had these problems ever before and as if they are destroying our country.

They are neither new, nor are they going away, no matter if we, as a woman suggests in All Quiet on the Western Front, cut off boys’ trigger fingers or put up a gigantic fence around the entire continent. 

As for their consequences, they pale, along with just about everything else in the entire world, in comparison with even a fraction of our debt — or with even one nuclear bomb in Iranian hands.

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