re: #270 Decatur Deb

Consider that, for 40 years, our FP focus was on vaporizing the Soviet cites a couple times over. The reversal of our thinking to some kind of optimistic detente in a decade or so was remarkable.

I also went over with the first wave of entrepreneurs and was way too optimistic that an economy based on exporting raw materials in exchange for cheap consumer goods was going to change or reform in any serious way…