Chapman here seems to be not only from a different century, but a different planet.
The specter of Islamism is a far more serious threat than communism was,
and has a far bloodier history (over a much longer period of time).
The United States is the most secure nation in the history of the world. We have a military with no peer, a nuclear arsenal capable of incinerating any enemy, vast oceans that separate us from rivals and many countries that want to be our allies. But some Americans insist on feeling relentless dangers that demand an ever-ready trigger finger.
We once had to fight the Germans and Japanese in a life-and-death struggle between good and evil. We once had to resist Soviet communism in the Cold War. Today we face nothing remotely comparable.
That's a great blessing, but in...
We, in the US are importing many as well. The future has the call to prayer in it.
Count on it.
Second, they probably haven't killed as many people as the communist killed in the 20th Century. And they have had centuries to try to do it.