If we can find millions to fight someone else's war in Libya, and send our young men to die for a war in Afghanistan we probably can't win, surely we can also find some money, and resources, and time, and thought, and surely we can also find the will, to fight this war at home.
Surely we would also have made them sustainable, organic and free range, had anyone mentioned it.
But surely we can also do better in protecting tomorrow's children from suffering that, however distant and theoretical it may seem to us now, will yield just as many broken lives and broken hearts.
Surely, we should also be given this figure to help us make a more balanced assessment of the role the British have played there over the past 13 years?
But there's one curiosity: surely we should also be investing in the skills of the over-50s - particularly older women to enable them to participate in the labour market on their terms?
If Cameron wants to trust teachers and clinicians more, rather than strangling them with top-down bureaucracy and targets, surely we would also trust voters more with who they vote for?
Then again surely we can also cheer for players who can keep their private lives private because in the end all it ever really comes down to isn't skin color or sexuality, but whether you can help score more goals than the other team.
If we can harness the power of the atomic nucleus and drill down miles for oil, surely we can also this knowledge for other technologies.
If we were correct when we said that the complete destruction of our vital capacities affects us, surely we are also affected, albeit less, by losing the very last of the vital capacities that sustain us.
