All right, we're going to talk about President Trump's new executive order, but before we do,

we are honored to have one of the most famous and most respected people in the world

to address the question of whether countries should build walls on their borders.

Yes, Aristotle is here. All right, not Aristotle, but a little bust of Aristotle because obviously

Aristotle has been dead for like thousands of years, but he was so eager to be here. He just said

California or bust. He's a, never mind. Here is Aristotle in his famous book Politics

as translated from the Greek by Spencer Clayvin because the Greek is all like Greek and stuff.

So here's Aristotle. Some people say city states that are trying for virtue should not have walls,

but those people's beliefs are out of date. They can see proof of that for themselves by looking at

what happens to other city states that put on that kind of display. True enough, when your enemies

are evenly matched and similar in number, it's not the best thing to rely on the strength of your

walls for safety, but sometimes there are just too many attackers for human beings to fight back

with virtue alone. And so if we want to be safe from disaster and embarrassment, we have to make up

our minds that the best thing for war is to have the strongest, most secure walls. Asking city

states not to put up walls is like trying to make your territory an easy target by flattening all

its hilly terrain, or like not even putting up walls around a private citizen's house because you

think the people who live there will become cowards. And we shouldn't forget city states that put up

walls can use them in two ways. They can act as if they had walls and as if they didn't.

City states without walls can't do that. So in fact, people shouldn't just put up walls around

their city states, they should also work hard to make sure that those walls are as beautiful

as the city state deserves. The Trump wall, well that'd be a beautiful wall.

The wall to meet every military need. Attackers work hard to find out how they can gain the upper hand

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