—Come on, Alan said. Abdullah could build this city in five years if he wanted to. Why drag it out over twenty? Hasan sat with that question for a long moment. —I have no idea, he said. And so they shared their frustrations of being at the mercy of factors out of their control, too many to count.
People having no idea, but hope is the analogy of a 50 something having no idea how he and America ended up like it has.