[Loser]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
General Marshall was what I would call a visionary. He will be forgotten by history, which is wrong, but desk jockies do not make great hero's i guess.

Marshall was the most influential man of the twentieth century. He had greater beneficial effect than Einstein and more Lasting effect than Hitler or Lenin. His plan was not popular, was not traditional, was not the way things were done. I do not see anything like it being done any time soon.

U.S. will go places, make changes, and leave things in unstable changes-made state. Then chaos will undo any good that could have come from changes made, and everything still sucks.

Despite that, U.S. is still the greatest place to live and the best country over all. No one else has ever pulled off a Marshal Plan. No powerful country, including present and past European and Asian powers, has ever conquered a country and fixed it as well, and left it as independent, and the U.S. did to Germany and Japan. Heck, the fact that they disagree with the U.S. or think themselves superior is only testimony to how healthy they have been made to be.

Bash U.S., they _do_ make mistakes. Go ahead. They can't seem to do anything right in Central and South America. It's true.

But no that no other country, including yours, has fixed Japan or Germany. No other country, including yours, has saved the world from fascism or statist communism.

It is my fervent hope that the U.S. finds more men like Marshal. If they do not, we are all in a world of trouble.