Hey Waldo -
Your opening comment, which is:
"
Really? Guarantee? Bwahhahaha. Sure thing, pal."
leads me to believe you did not understand it was a hypothetical, totally unrealistic situation I made up ... as in "pretend like."
A lot of the rest of what you said was a good history refresher. Much of it I agreed with.
Waldo,
my pal - everyone was impacted. Our whole fucking nation was tramatized.
You don't mind me calling you pal, do you? I see you used that endearing term towards me. 
LOL!
This has been interesting discussion. I am out of here. Past my bedtime.