Without HispanicLatinos, America would be hollowed out demographically at a time when the country is fundamental to the security of the world – an essential truth that HispanicLatinos must inculcate in the marrow of their bones. HispanicLatinos must now think of themselves in a profoundly historic way.  They must view themselves for the strategic assets that they have become and think about how they accelerate the development of their inner potential and innate talents. They are essential to the future of the country in the most basic of ways: They have become a national security concern.

HispanicLatinos indeed have become a national security concern – but for totally different reasons than history would suspect.  Instead of being a population rooted in a different culture and language and thus thought of as a possible threat to the American way of life as their numbers multiply, HispanicLatinos are now shoring up the national population.

More important, HispanicLatinos now must also help secure the fiscal condition of a country that must continue to spend trillions of dollars to improve its national defense systems in dangerous times, provide for its elderly as the Anglo population ages faster than others, educate the young of the next generations of Americans and rebuild the infrastructure of a maturing economy in order to take advantage of the new global market that has so quickly formed.  HispanicLatinos can only do this if they improve their social and economic standing – and quickly.

The condition and status of the HispanicLatino population in the United States is a national security consideration as important as the rise of China, India and Brazil.  Established public policy decision-makers should obsess about HispanicLatino birth rates whose ramifications extend beyond America and carry with them immense, global repercussions.  The human race, after all, has reached a dangerous point in which its relatively short existence on earth is now in question.  The polar bears drowning in the Arctic if they could voice their concerns probably would share the same view.

To sustain life on their earth, the nations of the world at some moment in the future will have to unite to face challenges basic to its survival.  Yet global strategies to address climate change, water shortages and instability triggered by food shortages assume that a financially and politically viable America exists.  Efforts to organize a global response to the challenges the earth faces hardly can wait for a China to work its way to greater democratic rule that might allow for more collaborative thinking than its government elites currently exhibit.  The same is true of India and Brazil.  India has a farther way to go than China, and Brazil can only do so much with the size of its economy and population, which is also beginning to decline.

In this geostrategic context, HispanicLatinos have assumed global security implications by demographic default.  This surprising responsibility of incalculable dimensions presents a daunting task for a long-disregarded HispanicLatino population whose presence outside the mainstream of American economic life already might have taken a decided toll.

HispanicLatinos at the moment might not be able to meet their new earth-shattering responsibilities.  They have much to overcome to have a chance to succeed.

But they and America have no other choice.

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