We are a laughing stock in the eyes of the world.

A nation of liberties, with an unimaginable bounty of resources that no other nation on earth can claim.

And yet we navel gaze and tear at our foundations and history. We delay and obfuscate rather than build. We quiver in fear lest someone, anyone, claim they are or have been wounded by our actions: past, present or hypothetical.

We are paralyzed.

Fix it, or we are doomed.