Sarah Paine

Yeah, I mean, the nationalists were telling us that it would be like this.

And we looked at them and go, what could be worse than the nationalists?

Because they were desperate situation with all what the Japanese were doing.

And then they get blamed for it all.

Yeah, there can't be something worse than that.

we'll be called communists.

But I don't know that anyone could have predicted.

Can anyone do a crystal ball what the world's going to be like in 10 years?

Yeah.

It seems when you read the history books that it had to be that way.

And yet in our own lives, we know that it's contingency of why things turn out as the aggregate of all of our choices.

How would you ever calculate that?

I think Americans need to worry about overextension.

Any country has to worry about overextension.

We have finite resources.

Also, you're talking about sending your fellow Americans go get themselves killed.

And that's quite something to ask someone to make that kind of sacrifice.

See, it had better be worth it.

Right.

And so there are 300 million Americans.