“It’s hard to imagine how a policy elite which cannot even approve the drilling of new oil wells or the construction of nuclear power plants can seriously contemplate competing with China. And yet China’s strategy is in large part based upon a playbook that America wrote — and forgot.”

That’s it in a nutshell. Our only hang-ups are mental. Americans do want to work and produce and defend intelligently. Our leadership will say whatever to get elected, and once elected glut as they will. Our national economy needs to get to work on our national security, and voters must define the issues because our candidates won’t.