LOL. I wish I could share your optimism. The more likely scenario in a country as institutionally corrupt as the U.S. today is that this “fairly honest accounting” is nothing more than a tool for defense contractors to get more taxpayer money — to fix things that weren’t built correctly in the first place.
It’s just like incompetent teachers and crappy school administrators citing the poor test scores of their students to justify their demands for more money for schools.
Yeah, I hear you. It’s easy to be a cynic nowadays, but you can end up being off target if you lean on that too much.