>I would love to spend $40 million a year sending 10,000 (or, allowing for
>bureaucratic inefficiency, 5,000) Russian-speaking Americans of Russian
>descent to Russia each year to be useful...
>
>After spending $4 trillion preparing to defend ourselves against the
>Russians over the past fifty years, the least we could do would be to spend
>ten (or even one) percent of that on programs to make the Russians
>democratic, prosperous, and happy...
But who wants that? "We" spent $4 trillion to destroy and humiliate the USSR; the last 10 years have been an episode of riotous celebration of "our" success.
Doug