I don't think the "Aliens" are running the show either. Although I've got to say the current administration must have some different kind of sensory organs than I do since they keep seeing the situation we're in as being a rose garden.

Perhaps we're at some point in our intellectual/industrial evolution where we're about to make a big breakthrough and they're concerned about what we're going to do. If we gained the ability to travel through space as they do(or time) in the next decade, I know I'd be worried!

First Iraq, then Iran, and then Nekton 99 in the Horse Head Nebula!