July 4th Cold War Comfort Food

Maybe its just me, but doesn’t it feel good to be fighting the Russians again!

Last week’s breakup of a major Soviet (sorry, I mean Russian) spy ring of deep undercover agents infiltrating American suburbia made me feel all giddy inside. What better gift to America this Fourth of July season then a little Cold War rewind.

Lets face it! We miss it don’t we? The James Bond, cloak and dagger, balance of power games played out between the U.S. and the Soviets. As Jon Stewart’s Daily Show commented, “its comfort food” for us like “curling up on the couch with a bowl of mac and cheese and an episode of Full House.”

It was a nostalgic moment when we got to relive the glory days. Like the high school quarterback, who now finds himself at a boring 9-5 job, America, who is currently bogged down fighting enemies we can’t begin to understand in Afghanistan and Iraq, got to pause for a moment and reflect on the good old days of worthy adversaries we could at least respect.

Come on, the Space Race? Reagan & Gorbachev? the Berlin Wall?…they were Godless Communists we could love and appreciate. Even the Chinese, who aspire to take the Soviet Union’s spot on the Superpower stage, are all becoming Christian Capitalists. What fun is that?

Instead we are stuck fighting ugly hairy guys with names like Omar Sheik something something who run around blowing up innocent women and children instead of a beautiful Russian temptress named Natasha who is simply trying to steal the plans to America’s new thing-a-ma-jig! Good times…Good times!

Ok, so the the Russian undercover ring was stealing information that could be found in any New York Times. That’s not the point. These wonderful Russian spies gave the American people a gift on our 234th birthday that money can’t buy.

They gave us the gift of love!