Tam misses the Commies....
It has been said that a man can be judged by his enemies, and one would assume the same holds true for those agglomerations of men known as "nations". And, while they lacked the suave black-and-silver menace of the Nazis, the postwar Soviets were as worthy a foe as any to have played The Great Game. Fortified borders, huge military parades, drunken madmen who pounded shoes on lecterns while threatening to bury us; these things were the stuff of a generation of air raid drills and spy novels and military speculation.
They've been replaced by our new foes, as depressing a lot as one could imagine: self-immolating neolithic goatherds drunk on a theology that makes the most ignorant snake handler in the backwaters of the Ozarks look like a regular Thomas Aquinas by comparison. May Day parades and fleets of ICBMs have been replaced by a comic opera dictator in a Southwest Asian banana republic hilariously flaunting a Weapons of Mass Destruction program that could be wiped out by the Massachusetts Air National Guard as a weekend training exercise if push came to shove.
Tam and her boomsticks
We need to remember the socialists rampant here in the states. True, the neolithic goatherds are a huge concern, but as Daniel Webster said...
"I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger."
Many in this country take their liberties for granted and have forsaken eternal vigilance for homegrown leftist propaganda which preaches tolerance for foreign neanderthals, criminals, and the immoral. When the weeds of socialism/globalism are stomped out here in our Nation, the theocratic terror-mongers (and others who despise the freedom and liberty the U.S. stands for) would understand that there are consequences to their actions. I'd wager a lot of the BS would come to a screeching halt if they were made to face those consequences.