It's not too late; yet

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“The United States is at risk of a crippling cyber attack that could "wreak havoc" on the country because the "technological balance" makes it much easier to launch a cyber strike than defend against it, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said Tuesday.”
— February 03, 2010 (FOXNews and The Associated Press)

Nobody asked me, and I am well aware that very few will pay any attention, but here is what I understand from a 30+years technical-career in research and development for national-defense applications:

Without the utmost, bi-partisan, focused expenditure and concerted effort towards securing our Nation from both foreign and domestic threats, every other issue deemed to be of National importance becomes, de facto, insignificant.

There is only one nation that truly understands this, politically, sociologically, and to a great extent by the population at large (via the school of hard knocks) — Israel.

Sadly, the United States does not have a good appreciation for this fact of life. Happily, we have been blessed as no other nation in history. Ironically, therein lies our greatest vulnerability.

All the energy (and the vast amounts of national treasure) we expend on issues both large and small (relatively speaking) obscure the only issue that is indispensable to our survival, and what is more, the survival of Western civilization. Our "great" leaders, currently engaged in pettiness, trivia, foolishness, and abject stupidity in many cases, represent the most callous abrogation of duty ever witnessed in recorded history.

Far be it from me to presume to advise The Obama Himself; but since I'm on this particular topic, if He was half as smart as He thinks he is, He would pounce on the opportunity to do something that would undoubtedly salvage His thus-far pathetic presidential record, and possibly save our Nation and the rest of the stinking (with several known exceptions) world: drop every stupid program He has been pushing, and launch a major initiative, on the scale of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, for 21st-century national defense.

It's not too late; yet.

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