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Japan Germany South Korea Every Western nation supported by the Marshall plan You're right, but it goes both ways and not 100% one way or the other
by josephjrobison 9y ago
Japan
Germany
South Korea
Every Western nation supported by the Marshall plan
You're right, but it goes both ways and not 100% one way or the other
- mmjaa 9y agoYeah, the USA did do some good for the world. 80 years ago. But what it is doing today is a terrible, atrocious tragedy, and its far beyond the point where the means justify the ends. I mean that as someone who follows closely the cost of American warfare, and as someone who refuses to ignore the human tragedy it is bringing to current generations of people who really, really do not deserve to have had their infrastructure utterly destroyed, their lives ruined, their children left in rubble, on a daily basis, because some smart American decided it had to be so.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoThe problem is, we wanted to do Iraq and Afghanistan and get out. If we had done a Marshall Plan in Iraq, we would have had maybe 100,000 troops there for a decade, but it would have been stable when we left.
- pyrale 9y ago> we would have had maybe 100,000 troops there for a decade The US has had north of 100k troops in Iraq for 7 years, then about 50k for 3 more years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_troop_surge_of_2007#/media/File:Iraq_Troop_Strength.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_troop_surge_of_2007#/...
- mmjaa 9y agoThe problem is, you thought it was acceptable to be there in the first place. Fuck, its 2017, are we really still explaining this? Of course we are. We must.
- jlgaddis 9y agoThe U.S. doesn't leave. Pretty much any where we send troops, we tend to set up bases there and remain indefinitely. Just look at Germany, Japan, Korea, Iraq, ...