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Molly Ivins wants a Marshall Plan
2001-10-09
  • Come on, let's get some new ideas in here. Or even some good old ones. I go back to the much-agreed point that the most successful American foreign policy of the 20th century was the Marshall Plan. The United States helped rebuild Europe with that plan, including Germany -- a place of which we then had no reason to be fond. But it was very smart of us.
    -- Molly Ivins
    Is Molly Ivins dumber than dirt, or do they pay her to write that way? For the Marshall Plan to work, it was first necessary to bomb Germany, Italy and Japan into rubble and occupy their countries with ground troops. The Germans had, of course, similarly demolished France and the Benelux. The leadership of the enemy either committed suicide or were hung. Once those tiresome tasks were out of the way, they could be rebuilt. If this is what Ivins is proposing, few could argue with her. However, it seems that "peacemongers" invariably propose advancing to the ultimate steps -- and they do so love the Marshall Plan! -- before completing the initial steps. This would be, as we always say in Texas, plumb stoopid.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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