This is the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles after the smoke cleared. Block after block of burned out houses and businesses, resembling bombed out cities in World War II. But what if it doesn’t just resemble a war, what if it IS a war? What if we are at war but just haven’t recognized it yet?

A stock character in many crime movies is an older detective who remarks, “I don’t believe in coincidences.” Perhaps we need him now.