There needs to be an acknowledgment of our failure.

[Orsino]

However, no US president for the next twenty years (if ever) is going to come right out and say that we did all that killing and dying just to enrich the robber barons. Too many rich old men will have to expire before there is officially a perspective anywhere near the truth. That means we have to grit our teeth or do our grousing on our own.

We have a right to demand the reckoning, but we have no right to expect it will happen. None.