Our main focus should always be on national security, of keeping the people safe and the nation whole. Our secondary concerns of sound economic policies, staying vigilant with regard to the protections of our rights and the compliance with constitutional limits, etc., are meaningless if we're all dead.
With those caveats, the most important affairs and issues have to do with international concerns, including (all first priorities, the order is random):
- The War on Terror (or the war against Islamic extremism used as the guise for world domination), wherever it appears in the world.
- Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, and more recently, the Iranian people in the adolescence of a revolutionary movement that could make their pursuit of nuclear weapons a non-issue/reversal of policy. We must do whatever we can to support Iran's revolution and independence from the Mullahs. If the Iranian people attempt to achieve the goals we hope to achieve in Afghanistan and Iraq (through war and the insertion of our military to protect these young democracies), through the spontaneous, people-spurred actions to do the same thing, we must not ignore it. It is a moral imperative that we encourage and support people who wish to overthrow the shackles of tyranny. Our goals in the Middle East are to replace tyranny with freedom, whether through our actions, or by the people themselves.
- North Korea's pursuit and development of nuclear weapons.
Everything else, not having to do with our determination to survive, is a distraction. Important, but a distraction. It makes no sense to survive, only to find our rights and freedoms lost, but we live to fight for them another day; in the same vein, it makes no sense to focus exclusively on our secondary concerns, only to be wiped off the planet, and by extension, not able to live to fight for our freedoms another day.
It makes for lots of running around in circles, screaming.
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