It’s Time For America To Focus On Its Own Problems

The way I have always prepared for my podcast is by writing my opening monologue and my closing monologue, the “Daily Cancellation.” I like doing it this way because it allows me to deliver commentary that is, I hope anyway, more thought out and interesting than what you get on the average podcast. The downside is that, first of all, it’s way more work and effort to do it this way. Second, it presents practical complications during the rare moments when major news events are breaking and developing by the minute. So, by the time I finish writing my monologue, the situation I’m writing about may have already changed.

We are in one of those rare moments right now. My plan today was to bring the focus back to the homefront, to problems that we face in our own country. And I will still do that. But I want to begin by providing an update on the situation in the Middle East. Unfortunately that situation is rapidly developing, changing, deteriorating, then improving, then deteriorating again then improving again. So, I’ll try my best to get us all up to speed, with the understanding that everything I cover in the first half of this monologue might be out of date by the time you read it. Not much I can do about that.