Contrary to the conventional opinion, well at least for those on record, Lindsey Graham has hit the proverbial nail on the head. Senator Graham is recommending that the United States cancel some of the debt owed to China. Now that is a plan.

This article originally appeared on Raw Story

On Fox News Thursday in discussion with Sean Hannity, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made an extraordinary statement: That he wants the United States to “cancel” some of the national debt held by the Chinese government as punishment for allowing the coronavirus to spread beyond its borders.

“I want to get the medical supply chain back in the United States, and I want to start canceling some debt that we owe to China, because they should be paying us, not us paying China,” said Graham. “So I think you’re going to see a bipartisan pushback against China to punish them so severely to deter them in the future.

Putting aside the thorny legal question of whether a foreign country can be legally held at fault for the spread of a deadly disease, there is a big problem with what Graham is proposing: the 14th Amendment.

The amendment, one of the three “Reconstruction Amendments” passed in the wake of the Civil War, contained a clause at the end that was designed to prevent Southern politicians — who historically wielded outsized power in Congress — from canceling the U.S. war debt, which could have shielded the white landowners who led the war effort from having to pay taxes: “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.”

At a bare minimum, this amendment would appear to make it unconstitutional to “cancel” Treasury bonds held by the Chinese government or businesses. But it might go even further than that — some have interpreted the phrase “shall not be questioned” more literally, to mean that public officials are bound not to say anything that would make creditors “question” the validity of the public debt. If that is the case, then Graham would have violated the Constitution simply by saying he wants debt held by China to be canceled.

THE STORY HAS NOT BEEN WRITTEN YET, but when this is all over we shall see what price China will pay. And we guaranteed that it will be in spades. China is currently on a political campaign by supplying respirators, masks and other various supplies to countries in need. This is pure and simple the Zeitgeist of the day. And as the sun comes up, the countries of the world are licking the ass of China. However, it won’t be long before most countries who China patronized with construction projects, loans and whatever realized that they were patsies.

Take Italy for example, does anyone think that the Italians are happy with their relationship with China today. After the virus became known in Wuhan, the Chinese fled to Lombardy causing multitude of deaths, hard aches and illnesses. Italy has been devastated in more ways than one. And we shall see what price they will pay. We can almost guarantee that the Ndrangheta of Calabria and La Costa Nostra will be involved. Our bet is they will make China a deal that they can’t refuse. Count on it! Italians, like Albanians don’t forget.