[lbo-talk] De Long Way

[Brad DeLong]

>There's an important sense (and it would be more trouble than it's worth
>to explain what that sense is) in which both the US and the USSR didn't
>choose to fight WWII and hence don't deserve credit for its consequences.
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>-- Luke
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>On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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>>  You don't understand. The good that the US does,
>>  however infrequent, is systematic; its evils, however
>  > overwhelming, are incidentala nd accidental.

World War II and the Marshall Plans were pretty big wins. So was NATO 
and the Helsinki Accord. The Korean War was a pretty big win as well.

On the other side, you have Chile... UNITA... Vietnam... et cetera. I 
wouldn't say "incidental," but I would say "not the biggest part of 
the story.'

Brad DeLong