““It is also possible to exaggerate the impact of ERP on the European economies. Americans, certain of their rectitude, power, and wealth, tend to do this without recognizing the important role that the industrious and efficient west Europeans played in their own recovery. Indeed, the Europeans deserve much of the credit for their economic revitalization after 1948. The plan gave them considerable autonomy and initiative, and they took it, reviving their historical possibilities in rapid time.58 In later years, when the United States directed aid at other less developed parts of the world, the results were by no means so felicitous.””
![“I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b63/khaled-hosseini-251_able_i-feel-like-we-americans-are-a-unique-na_1036909.jpg)
