It reads like despair but perhaps it's really a desire to talk turkey; a desire to clarify bluntly where we are and who "we" are.
One of Augustine's requirements for a just war is an honest, rational appraisal of the chances of victory.
The 200 million buck prison-on-a-freeway is not the fruit of only one battle. There is so much collaboration, so much passive acceptance, so much underlying chaos and indignity, so much general nincompoopery involved in this "construction project" that it seems to me--fully mindful of my many, many acts of cowardice in the skirmishes of Catholicism--that we should not waste our energies in trying to bring the dead shell back to life. It smacks of desperate voodooism.
I think we should hit the catacombs. Secularly as well as religiously, by the way....