They show the story of a country that used to build things and has decided, without ever quite admitting it, that building is too hard. Rep. Mike Turner was on television last week talking about letting Ukraine license our Patriot technology and build the missiles themselves, because the threat is spreading and our defenses must spread with it. The most powerful country in history is handing another nation the recipe for our best defensive weapon because we cannot make ourselves enough. We do not have a water shortage. We have a freshwater shortage, and next to the West lies the largest body of water on the planet.