Well, you guys are busting my chops and busting my youthful bubbles left and right today, and all I can say is I am awful glad I am not a gummint. Nevertheless I submit that the Marshall Plan channeled a lot of American sweat into the good of the wasted lands of Europe and Japan. I submit that incredible amounts of American labor have been translated into charitable dollars poured into almost every nation in the world. I submit that American lives and fortunes have been given away in the interests of forwarding the freedoms and well-being of other nations as well as, of course, the United States' own reciprocal well-being. Next time the Chinese decide it looks like a good time to capture Seoul, how's about we stand by and let it just kinda work itself out? Hmmmm?

I am all for well-informed cynicism, but perhaps it can also be exagerrated into a blinding dose-- a different but equally debilitating form of claptrap.

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