The Marshall Plan: Suffering Quotes

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Quote #4

Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. (6.3)

In short, the policy is against suffering itself. Or, more appropriately, against the causes of suffering. Marshall is all about the cure, not a treatment.

Quote #5

Furthermore, governments, political parties or groups which seek to perpetuate human misery in order to profit therefrom politically or otherwise will encounter the opposition of the United States. (6.9)

Marshall is declaring war not on a country, but on human misery itself. He's setting the U.S. against the entire concept of suffering, and in doing so, plans to rebuild the world economy from the ground up.