A memory of history can be a wonderful thing, or a terrible burden.
The above is from the country that had to get rid of Idi Amin. The author makes the same basic point from one of my posts a month ago – freedom has to be won, it can’t be given by an outsider. If George Washington hadn’t won the Revolution, but instead let the French provide the weapons, troops and do much of the fighting, in a few years, the “opportunists” like Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay will squeeze out the people who actually risked their lives to fight the Revolution.