Reply #20: America had an opportunity to lead the world

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to a higher level. It squandered it. I don't think it is simplistic at all, given the resources pissed down the drain from failed policies. All it takes is forward vision, rather than lurching into the future with eyes on the past.

Eisenhower warned us about warmongering. The 60s codified a modern message of peace We had a modicum of goodwill in place around the world, which could easily have been extrapolated with a sincere and earnest push for peace and humanitarianism. Greed and fear and cynicism brought us to our mangled present day. Not the inviability of world peace.