>>The "what do we do now" issue is completely separate from the "how we got here" issue, and to use it as a means of absolving someone of wrongdoing or to divert attention from the latter issue is simply a red herring.
>
>Why are we debating how we got here, if we're not interested in doing anything about it?
>
>
>>As to the truly great things that are happening, what would that be?
>
>26,074,906 people have been freed of a dictator and are working to govern themselves democracticly.

Subtract about 100,000 who died in the process.