[NewAmsterdam]

The point is not that there was no destruction of industry in Europe, of course there was. The point is that the US made money available to nations that knew how to rebuild their own country. By the way, I would not maintain that most of the industrial destruction of Europe was the result of US bombing, as you seem to suggest.

[dirtboy]

By the way, I would not maintain that most of the industrial destruction of Europe was the result of US bombing, as you seem to suggest.

Most of the destruction in the countries of our former enemies was, which is more analogous to the current situation in Afghanistan than, say, Marshall Plan aid to Greece...