[turgidElderly]

My favorite part about all this is the fear of a "Polywater Gap."

Mandrake, how does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual.

MR. PRESIDENT?! I WILL NOT ALLOW A MINESHAFT GAP!!!

...and then all the parallels with the Cat's Cradle novel, by Kurt Vonnegut, heaped on top.

It's like everyone in national security sits around watching movies and reading novels, and then goes out into the world the very next day, and tries to act them out as part of some warped vision of what they think reality should be, given their advantage for shaping world events.

There's something seriously bizarre and disturbing about that.