Even if you think that Maddow presents the actions of the Soviet Union in rose-colored light, this is still a scary book in the I-don-t-want-this-to-be-true sense. Even at the Reagan years it's already making Metal Gear's Sen. Armstrong seem unimaginitive by comparison. For one man has been free to fight his own wars for decades. By the time it gets to Obama, it might as well start quoting Kirk.