Count me as one who agrees with the parent comment. Maybe that makes a difference for your popularity-based reasoning? Nation-states require people working on

Count me as one who agrees with the parent comment. Maybe that makes a difference for your popularity-based reasoning? Nation-states require people working on real problems, especially if we are continuing to shoulder the burden of securing the rest of the western world. We cannot run on maintenance-mode without a technical team. If we are to do something we should do it well. Otherwise we should own the alternative of turning inward, reducing our obligations to NATO and the UN, and shrinking the size/scope of the federal government.