Do you believe the marshall plan was a wise policy to put into effect after world war 2?

Answer 1

There is absolutely, beyond any possible question, no doubt that the Marshall Plan was a wise policy. The absence of any such helping hand after WWI allowed the growth of an atmosphere in which the resentments and grudges of the previous war could grow and become fixed in the minds of the people, as they looked at the remaining destruction of the war still surrounding them, and felt the lingering economic after-effects. The proof of the wisdom of the Marshall Plan is that in the two-thirds of a century since there has been no widespread general European war. Some people try to argue that the Marshall Plan led to the post-WWII "economic miracle" which created a vastly stronger economy in Europe - one strong enough to compete successfully with that of the US, to the detriment of the economic well-being of the US. Perhaps this is so, but its still cheaper and less damaging than having to go take part in another European blood-letting every generation.