When I was very young, Hitler set out to conquer the world and failed. The world is large; there weren't enough Germans to go around.
The size calculation wasn't difficult to make, but I bet Hitler had been a bad math student when he was attending school with young Ludwig Wittgenstein. In any case, the same mistake has also been made by Tojo, Stalin and George W. Bush, none of whom could count accurately.
The United States is never going to rule the world, serve as the world's police force or protect the women in a hundred medieval nations. In fact, according to George Will last week, we should not even adopt an equal rights amendment to protect American women.
As we abandon Afghanistan, my suggestion, despite Will, is that we work on equality for women in North America, where we live and can make a difference.
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