Ah yes, the latest monster from across the wide, deep oceans...
In the twenties, Mussolini made the trains run on time.
In the thirties and forties, it was, depending on who and when you talked to them, Hitler or the Bolsheviks.
In the fifties and sixties, especially after Gagarin, it was the Bolsheviks.
In the seventies, the Arabs.
In the eighties and some of the nineties, the Japanese.
Then for a while, nothing.
Now, it's the Chinese, and when they aren't the big bad monster from across the sea, it's the Arabs - and the Pakis, and ... well, whoever else points at Mecca when they're praying.
I've been around a long time (since Gagarin, and John Glenn as the answer to Gagarin) and watched all this stupid crap come and go. It'll never end, just like bottomless stupidity never ends.
In the twenties, Mussolini made the trains run on time.
In the thirties and forties, it was, depending on who and when you talked to them, Hitler or the Bolsheviks.
In the fifties and sixties, especially after Gagarin, it was the Bolsheviks.
In the seventies, the Arabs.
In the eighties and some of the nineties, the Japanese.
Then for a while, nothing.
Now, it's the Chinese, and when they aren't the big bad monster from across the sea, it's the Arabs - and the Pakis, and ... well, whoever else points at Mecca when they're praying.
I've been around a long time (since Gagarin, and John Glenn as the answer to Gagarin) and watched all this stupid crap come and go. It'll never end, just like bottomless stupidity never ends.