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But the overwhelming impression the book leaves is less of devastation per se than of contempt--the contempt the Little Father of the People felt for ordinary workers, the generalized contempt for human intelligence that pervaded his regime.
And think also of what Soviet Communism extracted from America over five decades: stupendous military and economic resources, which could have been far better spent elsewhere; a morally corrupting political division over the response to communism; the deaths of many thousands of Americans in the Vietnam and Korean wars; and the continuing threat of nuclear devastation for decades.
As Foer points out, other areas of Europe experienced blights of the potato crop from the same fungus, but none suffered the human devastation that Ireland did.
There are at least a dozen examples of man-made ecological disasters that led to famine and widespread devastation, and at least a couple of major civilizations that collapsed under the weight of ecological mismanagement.
Better, perhaps, to sort things out thoroughly in the short run, and to prevent even greater devastation for all concerned down the road--even if that means suffering a few casualties, or opening ourselves up to the charge of imperialism.NomadNet, a page on "Somalia, Peacekeeping, Relief & Economic Development Issues" run by Michael Maren, has been shut down, but its archives are still open.