I just watched Politically Incorrect and Bill Maher said that watching Kerry run for President again would be like having to watch Rex Grossman play another Superbowl lol:
it worked for Germany and Japan after WWII. Germany, in particular, had an insurgency problem after the War, but the nation (re)building eventually worked.
Hey thats it the US can lose a war and someone will rebuild us! Why didnt we think of that before! Oh yeah theres that fact that we seem as a nation to want fix everyone but ourselves thing again, and nobody but nobody will help us they way we helped them...oh bother.
it worked for Germany and Japan after WWII. Germany, in particular, had an insurgency problem after the War, but the nation (re)building eventually worked.