"The more things change, ..."

Here's a great 50-year-old quote I heard this morning:

"This 'country-right-or-wrong' business is getting a little out of date. Today we’re fighting Communism. OK. If I’d been alive fifty years ago, the brand of conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving along pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep changing parts."

-- from Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, the first James Bond novel, published in 1953.

Now read the passage again but substitute the word "Communism" with "terrorism" and see what happens. Nothing.