It's been an eye opener how many communist fellow travellers or committed Marxists have landed on their feet since the fall of the Soviet Union and are still working for their old communist goals against the American way.
My husband tells me we can't remark on that with outsiders because this reality is beyond their ability to comprehend or accept and we'd just look looney.
Glad you see what I see.
All you have to do is count the years from 1990, when the Soviet Union fell - and know that we will need more ships, more covert agents, more interpreters, more of everything, by the year 2015. The Navy is allowing Rummy to push through some serious ship cuts that the US will regret, but regret too late to do anything about it.
I love Rummy but I do not agree with him entirely on his "transformational" theory for the Military. It is flawed, IMHO.
I live in California, home of a genuinely Marxist legislature.
In the mid-1990's I worked for a company that has since gone out of business. One of my coworkers there was a guy who had once worked for the Sierra Club. His parents are wealthy. In 1997 they took a trip to Red China. The one thing their privileged American son wanted them to bring back for him was a Chinese military cap with the Red Star.
They did, and he used to wear it to work. None of the managers made him take it off or not wear it on company property.