Perilous void in recent debate

Dear MSNBC and moderators:The eight candidates and moderators did well in the debate of last Wednesday evening, except for one glaring oversight and omission.

All continued ignoring the No. 1 ingredient in our economic collapse, which will soon bring an end to our nation as we know it.

Perhaps the candidates, media, economists and politicians all share the blame. Thus the cover-up. This writer is unable to decipher any other explanation for this perilous void.

The ingredient, of course, is the unjustified wars in which we are suffering deaths of thousands of our young troops and injuries to scores of thousands more.

Please explain your position or lack of one.

BILL D. BURLISON, Wardell, Mo,