Wonders whether the U.S. (since the neutering of Gen. Patton by Eisenhower) has the mojo/masculinity to perform the kind of self-surgery you’re describing through to completion. Or whether the patient will bleed out and expire on the table.
Interesting because wasn’t it Eisenhower as POTUS that worked to discredit McCarthy? McCarthy has since been validated by uncovered documents like the Venona files to have been more or less correct. That is the US had been and was currently being infiltrated by Communist subversives elements and McCarthy eliminated many of them.
The more I learn of Eisenhower the more I wonder if in some ways he wasn’t the father of Neo-Cons.
I'm thinking bleed out.