[Echo Talon]

The U.S. economy is headed toward crisis, and the political leadership of the country – if it can be called leadership – is preoccupied with nonexistent weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.

This is the first sentence and I stopped reading at the end of it.

[beyond the sea]

This is the first sentence and I stopped reading at the end of it.

That certainly wasn't a promising first sentence. But you would have been wise to keep reading.

Most informed folks believe the weapons were moved out of Iraq earlier, so don't get hung up on that. Roberts has a problem with that, but I was posting this because of a concern about what he said about the dollar.