>People planning the post-WWII system wildly overestimated how how disciplined Americans could be. We had the post-WWII optimism and then the post-Cold War opt

>People planning the post-WWII system wildly overestimated how how disciplined Americans could be. We had the post-WWII optimism and then the post-Cold War optimism clouding the judgment of an entire country. I kind of wish we'd been more curmudgeonly like the Europeans.