Should we really do something about terrorism?

Putz's stand-in, Megan McArdle, is the deeply silly authoritarian who wrote,

I think that the decision to invade Iraq had a lot of reasons behind it, of which only a few were discussed with America. And I'm also okay with that. The government, unfortunately, can't have a secret closed-door meeting with the entire country in which it tells us what it is thinking.

She has a doozy today.

ON GLOBAL WARMING Let me clarify a little my position. I think there are a lot of questions about global warming: how much, and what, should be done. However, I regard two questions as basically no longer worth debating, at least by people with my level of science education:

1) Is AGW happening?
2) Should we do something about it?

Guess what, Megan? There are people who 1) don't think global warming is happening and 2) that we shouldn't do anything about it and 3) ridicule people who are global warming advocates.

They're called "Republicans."

McArdle adds,

Unfortunately, I think that politics renders the questions that are worth arguing, pointless; we won't find a political solution to the problem because . . . mmmmmm, leather seats. I'm hoping instead for a technological breakthrough that renders the question largely moot.

And I'm hoping for a pony.

Megan: it's called "leadership." I know we haven't seen any of that for the past 6 1/2 years, but government actually works when effective, competent people are running it instead of trying to drown it in the bathtub.

And by the way, you might've had your technological breakthrough if the Republicans had spent half a trillion dollars on the problem, instead of starting a pointless war that you were "okay with."