No question...but you and I both know that doing one will risk the other, and there WILL be costs. If you are asking my own opinion....then yes, the benefits of the "principal" justify the risks WITH the proviso that our "kids" have the adequate wherewithal to accomplish the "mission" as you have so succinctly defined it.
But I have to ask, what if anything that has transpired in the last 4 months and change gives you ANY indication that Pres. Cookoo Banana and his Band have any intention of seeing the problem in those terms?