Anybody see this on Pravda? Yikes....

"Duck and Cover" and checking under the bed for
lurking Communists.

Since WWII we have had to have an enemy, and the Soviets
fuilled the bill very well.  There was no way to justify
enormous military spending and worldwide bases without some
boogeyman out there doing us evil.  We could freely install
"our" dictators and support war and revolution as
long as it was to fight those nasty Communists.  That they had
nukes made it even better-- they understood MAD and the chance
of a real shootin' war with them was actually minimal if
everyone just played the game.

Without the Soviets looking to take over everything, we still
have over a hundred bases around the world and a trillion
dollar military budget that has to be justified. 
"Terrorists" are filling the bill quite nicely. 
Even better than those nasty Russians because nobody really
knows who they are or where they hide so we can spend the
money freely without anyone asking too many questions. And
they don't actually have a nuclear arsenal that could destroy
us if someone blinks.

Imagine how we'd be doing if our best and brightest actually
spent their time working on stuff people could use instead of
weaponry, like the Japanese, Italians, Germans and others are
doing?  Japan and Europe have discoverd the "Peace
Dividend" that would pay out much better here is we ever
tried it.