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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: Qatar air force base on American soil
Date: 10/14/25 8:53 AM
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Taking a lesson from history, what do you think of a Marshall Plan for Gaza/Palestine? Instead of continuing to grind them under, help them rebuild. Worked with Germany and Japan. Both are allies now (at least until the Felon completely trashes that).

It's possible that might be a wise move, at some point. But remember that the Marshall Plan came after years of de-Nazification - and wasn't just, or even primarily, about rebuilding Germany but all of Europe. And it came in the context of the onset of the Cold War - redeveloping those countries was driven by the geopolitical need to have a robust check against the nascent Soviet threat. The same is true, for the most part, of the Reverse Course in Japan.

So we're years away from that in Gaza, if it's even on the cards. If the plan is successful at purging Gaza of Hamas to the extent that de-Nazification worked by 1947-1948, that might be a possibility. But even then, once you've purged Hamas out of the region it's hard to see why any of the regional countries would be especially inclined to invest/rebuild that area when they have such pressing needs at home....
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