Can you refute that, other than with an excess of punctuation marks?
Is that a manifestation of the impeccable Paleo logic? You have it exactly backwards.
The heavy, and impossible, burden would be on the person who asserts that the post war nation building of Germany and Japan- universally accepted as maybe one of the real foreign policy successes of the past 100 years- was not worthwhile.
So you get right on that Paleo thesis. Don't forget to include within your arguments the Paleo belief that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are a moat and we are safe, with no interest in the World, in fortress America.
Let me know when you complete your work. I'll read it just after I finish reading another brilliant analysis proving Armstrong only walked on a sound stage.