with a cost analysis) and finally make a decision. Actually, your comment along the lines of 'exceptional' military involvement is an important one in my mind. Another article I read regarding comparing a Central American 'Marshall Plan' to the actual one mentions the important issue of "security' for the process. Western Europe had a long history of laws and civil structures, so a high level of confidence for all the participants was virtually assured from the get-go...not so much in Central America, so we'd have to do something along the "policing" lines (hopefully in a 'Pan American' spirit) in order to assure that the effort wasn't a 'fantasy'.
Now some are sure to say the very concept is a fantasy...I'd like to see how the "status quo" is superior to the possibility of a more stable and vibrant American hemisphere...that might even give us international leverage as China goes about its 'bidness'.