Are you high?
Aside from the fact that the we didn't foot the bill single-handedly, we also raised taxes to pay for the portion we took responsibility for.
You can't have it both ways. If you want to draw an analogy between WW2 reconstruction and this escapade then you should also compare multi-national institutions that were created to address the issues as well as the fiscal policies we enacted.
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