Not to add to your anxiety, but read the words William Casey wrote to his daughter in Ollie North's latest report
here. Casey's understanding of the imperative back then was spot on. Given our understanding today that "those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it," think of the burden the RATs are trying to place on our children and grandchildren.
Repeating Casey's key paragraph (empahsis added):
"This ocean was placed between us by forces you never knew, which the generation before mine failed to control and which mine must stamp out. It is a task which must be done if we are to live in peace, freedom and decency. We shrank from the job and the danger grew.