Sarah Paine

And it would want to give aid to both of them and just didn't get it.

As long as they're primary adversaries, you aid one, it infuriates the other.

And they're never going to cooperate the two of them.

Or I suspect what was going on in Iraq and Afghanistan.

So you want to have a democracy and you want to have all the parties represented.

Well, if they all want to obliterate each other, the last thing they want to do is have representation of the other side, right?

So if you have parties that want to exterminate each other,

The idea of getting them to cooperate is impossible.

So don't try it.

So that would be the lesson from this thing.

We kept trying to do a coalition government with the communists and the nationalists.

It's a non-starter.

The United States was a very isolationist country and didn't have the attitude of a great power until after World War II.

And World War I, we felt dragged into it and these horrible wars and being quite irresponsible during the Great Depression and just ignoring everybody else's problems, didn't want to hear about it.

And then we get a World War II out of that and then we rethink that whole proposition.

No, I'm sure it would be different.

One of the reasons Taiwan is Taiwan is

is after they lost the Civil War and they are on the island of Taiwan, they did big after-action analysis of what went wrong, and they decided it was corruption and that it was land reform, that they needed to fix those things.

But they couldn't do land reform on the mainland because that's their officer corps.

But when they come to Taiwan, they can more than redistribute Taiwanese land.