Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I'm reading a spy novel of Daniel Silva's - The Other Woman.  It was slow to build, but in the meantime I was struck by how much I used to think these kind of books were fiction, and how it has only recently dawned on me how very much they reflect the real world.  Because this book brings in real names of real exposed spies, it has hit me harder.  This is really what our governments do.  I'm pretty horrified.  And in light of new information about Russia it seems as if we are in a terrible cold war that I naively assumed was over.  So world operates in an ugly manner, with the intent to sabotage each other.  Great!  I feel like a kindergardener who has just discovered there is no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny.