Absence of clear priorities

Name(s): 
Inadeauate guiding criteria for policy-making
Claim 
In the absence of clear priorities, leaders of modern societies are unable to explain persuasively how and why specific expenditures of resources need support. The focus should be on a very short list of priorities essential to the survival of a community or a nation faced with major threats. The lack of guiding criteria undermines the foreign policy of nations.
Type 
(J) Problems under consideration