ABSTRACT
The tendency on the part of the conservatives is to agree about the existence of many of the problems, but to resist raising the additional resources in the hope that the economy will somehow generate them and that the knowledge and understanding of where and how to commit the resources will somehow appear. The set of problems is too big, the perception of the problems is too diffuse, the diversity of solutions to problems that are agreed on is too great, the pathways to any solutions are too murky, to permit easy prediction of whether the problems will be met and solved. Rational solution to the problems will require significant changes in our culture and our comforts. Most thoughtful citizens would agree that we have many serious problems facing us, and that many of them are related to our national security in some way.
