And the average American rolled their eyes, snorted, grabbed their bag of potato chips, diet Coke, and X-box controller, and settled in on the couch to play Call of Duty. The threat is real; modern America's response is/will be: "Those silly Soviets - whatever could they be thinking? Don't they know civilized nations can't behave like that?". 
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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