Pretty well? Pretty well?! [His arm shoots out in a fierce gesture.] There's goddamn terrorists running around and nobody but fuckin' civilians stopping them! Is that okay in whatever magical Wham-reject town you come from?

[He reins himself in and moderates his voice.]

So people have scraped by through disasters on their own, that's fan-fucking-tastic, but that's not exactly an ideal situation. When something big comes along, you can't waste time arguing. You need somebody calling the shots.

People here'll have the sense to see that.