Answer: to a pre-emptive Russian Strategic Nuclear attack on the Continental United States

Once my televised interviews are posted by the hosts on their websites and Twitter accounts, I often take a look at the Comments from viewers to better understand the audience and its mood. After my first appearance on one of India’s largest circulation English-speaking news channels with global reach, I was amused to see the remark: “hey, the old guy isn’t saying what they expected him to say!” A bit further down the Comments column was the remark that the viewer was delighted to see an unusual point of view presented on the channel. Perhaps the general management also reads the Comments, because I have been invited back on their various programs repeatedly since then.

Regrettably, not every “old guy” in public view says what is not expected of him. A case in point is the very…