IN this first week of the year , with the world once again forced by unimaginable circumstances to think about its priorities -LRB- if only fleetingly -RRB- , Matters proposes some wholly unrealistic resolutions for 2005 : Republicans : Resolve to cut back drastically on exclusive inaugural festivities and channel the millions of dollars raised for these events to disaster relief in Asia , and to armor for ill-protected military trucks in Iraq .