The challenge is an exceedingly difficult one—one that perhaps admits of no ideal solution. Still, the alternative is to wait for the pressure of events to make hard choices in moments of crisis rather than to deliberate in days before the storm.
*James Jay Carafano, PhD, is Assistant Director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies and Senior Research Fellow for National Security and Homeland Security in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.