[Lion's Cub]

I don't believe you are off at all.

Most of the minds here are still fighting in the past. They haven't made the paradigm shift yet.

It's sort of like the British who insisted on staying in formation because that's the way it was always done. I have every confidence, though, that this shift will be made as more Americans begin to grasp the concept.

[Long Cut]

From the movie Rising Sun, spoken by Sean Connery:

"We're playing that most American of games, Kohai...CATCH-UP!"

It's been a year since Black Tuesday. Would that the "paradigm" shifted a lot sooner. Like, perhaps, during the Iranian Hostage Crisis? How many to date would still be alive, had we done what was necessary then?

And some fools wring their hands about "pre-emption". The garden only becomes the harder to weed, if it is not tended to early and often.