Israel is no longer calling men out of their farm fields and orchards to fight, as it did in 1967 and 1973, but more often pulling them away from computer terminals in modern, globally connected companies that can ill afford their absence.
"Every day you fight for this bill, every day trust in you on the NHS ebbs away and every day it becomes clearer: the health service is not safe in your hands, " he concluded.
So Mr Bush is trying to widen the debate away from particular issues into a broader fight between big government and small, or, as he puts it, between trusting the government and trusting the people.