Quote Originally Posted by Ken White View Post
A country that then knew it could do anything and proceeded to do it. I watched his peers totally wreck that trying to be European, sophisticated and kewel.
I suspect that in some part we had people with a can-do-anything attitude coming up against things they couldn't do. If you're gonna make a can-do attitude work you need to know what you can and can't do, and stay away from the things you can't do.

There are things we can't do and shouldn't try to do. Installing governments for other countries, IMO, is one of them.