[dighton]

"If these damned Czechs won't listen to reason, they'll cause a World War."

[gcruse]

You know, the Marshall Plan proved the US had learned the lessons of WWII, by resurrecting the economies of those we defeated in war. Europe is still in the nineteenth century, I think. The stunning gulf between the superpower and the rest of the civilized nations is not limited to military prowess.