"Your world requires some imaginary enemy to fear, the belief that the barbarians are at the gates. That the hordes don't exist is irrelevant to your fears."

Is that so? So your world requires no forward thinking. You would wait until something bad happens and then do something, maybe, instead of being prepared.

You must not have been a boy scout either. WW2 happened because of people like you. It has nothing to do with fear. Didn't your mamma ever teach you to hope for the best and plan for the worst? If not, then shedid you a great diservice and you can blame her for your ignorance. If she did and you ignored it, the you are a fool, just like Roosevelt and the League of Nations were prior to WW2.