Right Now!

One of my best reps over the years used to say that her secret to success was "working scared." She always told herself that if she didn't make contact with her clients Right Now! that her competitors would beat her to the punch. Right Now! is a great way to work, to plan, to live. Having assessed that a Nazified Europe would be not only a military and economic threat to America, but a threat to our very civilization, FDR approached the conflict with red-lined intensity. He signed the go ahead for the Manhattan Project on Dec 6, 1941 (sheer coincidence to Pearl Harbor the next day), and in 3-1/2 years, the US spent the equivalent of $20 Billion dollars, employed 130,000 people, and produced 2 atomic bombs that ended World War II and saved many many hundreds of thousands (and probably millions) of American and Japanese lives. From idea to completion of mission in 3-1/2 years ... WOW!!! After 9/11, the US gov't resolved that it must create massive amounts of biological antidote for American people. In 3 years, all it has managed to do is get passed the 'go ahead' to begin the program. 3 years to accomplish only that we can begin the first step ..... wow. The casual attitude of our government and many of our citizens is the recipe for disaster, and possibly defeat. Failure to survive is the logical outcome of a failure of imagination, and/or a failure of will and/or a failure of means. Americans have the means, the majority of us still have the will ... the big question is does our government (I refer not to our current elected administration, but rather to the thousands of career govt bureaucrats who either grease or brake the skids of daily gov't functions) have the ability to imagine the far side of darkness, and to combat it in its infancy?