I too have little hope we'll do anything until our backs are against the proverbial wall.
To quote Churchill:
Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
My greatest fear is that we never get over our political correctness until we reach Churchill's worse case...
Someone please tell Obama that you can’t “contain” cancer. It has to be destroyed otherwise it will spread and eventually kill. The longer you take to destroy it the less chance you have to succeed. Maybe he knows this and just doesn’t care...