Gasp!
You have a good point there. If you had said Hollyweird, you would even have a better one! Tough call!!
The same salami-slicing tactics would also apply to France; if you were a French Parisian, would you fight to save Marsailles? How about Lyon? Or Strasbourg? But Paris? Ah!
The point is,... the native French are about to lose their entire country and that without hardly firing a shot (at least until it is too late). The same can be said for the USA. At some point it must be translated from "over there" to "right here" and appropriate action taken. To fail in that is to lose it all.