Congress and the administrations have long known that they have only to issue orders and they will be carried out. Our politicians have long held to the motto, “Anything can be accomplished by giving an order.”
Our military and CIA have long held to the motto, “The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.”
Our “esteemed” politicians (collectively) primarily concern themselves with what will appeal to the voters, that’s their only reality.
Something similar, from different service:
"We, the unappreciated,
working for the unknowing,
led by the unqualified,
have been doing the unbelievable,
so much, for so long, with so little;
we are now being asked to do the impossible,
with nothing,
forever."