Yeah, actually I am nostalgic for the time of the Cold War, when we knew exactly who our enemies were, and what direction missiles would be coming from. Today missiles, truck bombs, and you name it could be coming from anywhere, and an ally one day is an enemy, or at least indifferent to us, the next. I mean, what wasn't to like about the Cold War, other than such little nothings as the possibility that half an hour from now, you'd be so much radioactive gas from an incoming ICBM; dangerous STDs circulating like, well, STDs at a frat party, thanks to all the things returning soldiers had picked up during overseas duty (before the Vietnam War, there were only 8 serious STDs listed in the Merck Manual, the physician's bible; afterwards, there were some 200 sexually transmitted diseases floating around, and Merck Co. couldn't keep up fast enough); the horrors our returning soldiers went through thanks to the idiot protestors calling them "baby-killers" and other lovely epithets, and throwing shit and urine on them as they came off the plane, and the hell so many such veterans have suffered ever since, thanks to that and what they went through in Vietnam; drugs flowing everywhere in the USA, taken by people often as young as in their early teens and now in their mid-pre-teens, thanks to imports from outside as well as domestic production lines, blowing minds, brains, lives, careers, and relationships sky-high in all directions, and leaving their stamp on children in the womb, a situation which since then, thanks to meth, has only gotten worse; an endless flood of runaways fleeing highly abusive homes for the absolute pits of street society and, in many cases, rape and murder and worse at the hands of predators taking advantage of the situation; and a vast communications abyss between the generations due to all the aforementioned and more, alienating people from their own history and their future, destroying families, and otherwise tearing hell out of the nation and everyone in it of whatever age. I mean, it was a fuckin' paradise, wasn't it? And it just gets worse and worse and . . .