The fault lies with the Russian people. By eliminating the Soviet Union they got rid of the bogy on which US society can focus its negative energies. That bogy was political. We have replaced it with a bogy that is seen as religious, and history teaches us that facts and faith do not make good bedfellows.

For all the 'progress' our society has made we are still only a short step from the days of the Spanish Inquisition.