(I'm willing to bet that in a decade the US will still consider their interests to be closer to the Athenians at Melos than to JFK being summoned by the trumpet. In particular, I'll bet that the US will remain interested in carrier strike groups, and remain uninterested in having either universal health care or skilled labour)
(or maybe he was just miffed that instead of loanwords from hebrew, eg Tacheles reden, the kids in germany are shocking their elders by getting their loanwords from other semitic languages, eg Ahki?)
which sides are both sides again? in this case I claim that it's difficult for imported skills to be transmitted to the next generation when the US educational system is (or at least it was during my time) built around producing the sort of highly fungible Schumpeterian worker bees who play well with others.
(Bernie? Chomsky? DJT, only whilst on goldplated throne?)
(although I guess every consequentialism has to have a steep discount factor, otherwise putative desired consequences arbitrarily far in the future could be claimed to justify obviously undesirable actions today? Note also that Gov. Long didn't die in bed.)