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Originally Posted by albed
The U.S. military ended nazism in Germany and facism in Japan and made them liberal democracies. Why can't it be done again?
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ok, i'm off today - i can play with you for a bit
it can't be done again because iraq is not germany or japan. um, haven't we done this before? oh yeah,
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Originally Posted by theknife to albed
...post-war germany and japan are completely irrelevant comparisons. both had been industrialized, relatively well-educated societies with experience in democracy prior to WW2 - iraq is a tribal, relatively undeveloped society whose primary religion is incompatible with democracy.
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it's been a year since that post and over three years since the Prez declared "mission accomplished" and "the end of major combat operations". by 1948, were the streets of Berlin or Tokyo a civil war zone, with most major government functions barely operational, and 50-100 people getting killed every day (not to mention an ongoing US body count)?