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(10,597 posts)... of what you speak. The US alone could have saved the world. We could be that line in the poem "shining city on a hill" that politicians love to quote. We DID do the right thing after WWII with the Marshall Plan. So many things could be different about our lives here in America and about the lives of billions of people all over the world had we not taken the wrong turn. Tell me I am wrong by blaming it on Harry Truman for the wrong turn (NOT.) Yeah, maybe there would have been another President who would have signed those documents, creating the CIA and the NSA. Probably Ronald Reagan or GHWB. But maybe not. Maybe our Presidents would have been competing from then on, on who could make the world a better place, instead of ... well I will stop there.
History tells a story.