Letter: We have met the enemy and he is us

In 2014, former President Clinton said in a Jimmy Kimmel interview that “[an alien invasion from outer space] may be the only way to unite this increasingly divided world of ours.”More than two decades earlier, in 1987, President Reagan had said “I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside of this world” — in other words, if we humans were facing a global existential threat.And now we are fac