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McFly — (archived)

I agree that the US had a decisive, and decisively positive, impact on the course of WW2. I don't know if it makes much sense to speculate "had the US never existed," but OTOH, had the US decided to sit the war out, the last several decades would have been far different, and I doubt in a good way.

But it's human nature to ask "what have you done for me lately," and I think the ROW is having a lot of trouble answering that question in terms of the US right now, except in an unflattering manner.

If you'd asked me about this a year ago, I'd have suggested that we'd lost our way as a nation...but now, unfortunately, I think the path we're treading is in fact a continuation of the one we've been on all along. So it's not a matter of having lost our way, it's a matter of *finding* a new way, a way that will let us co-exist peacefully with the ROW.

Just an opinion, Frank. In the end, what I believe counts for precisely nothing.

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