[vette6387]

“Look at post war Japan and Germany. It took years to bring stability in there.”

The situation in the ME will never be resolved! Short of a nuclear holocaust, the Islamists will be doing the same $hit 100 years from now. Just too bad Israel is in there.

[Bluewater2015]

“Look at post war Japan and Germany. It took years to bring stability in there.”

The situation in the ME will never be resolved! Short of a nuclear holocaust, the Islamists will be doing the same $hit 100 years from now. Just too bad Israel is in there.

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Exactamundo. Japan and Germany were and are homogenous nations that always had a robust civil society; this was true even under Imperial and Nazi rule respectively. Iraq had and has neither homogeneity nor a civil society worth writing home about. And both Germany and Japan were facing at war’s end a menacing Soviet Union. This threat encouraged both nations to graciously accept American occupation—since the alternative was enslavement.

[elpadre]

Europe had been in a state of turmoil throughout history until the end of WWII when the US maintained peace with US fighting forces, ditto Japan. The American GI kept the peace and the American citizen paid to rebuild both places - that is a long time for peaceful existence.

Why wouldn’t the presence of American forces in Iraq (with no ROE’s) haven’t able to do the same for the ME??

[elpadre]

Europe had been in a state of turmoil throughout history until the end of WWII when the US maintained peace with US fighting forces, ditto Japan. The American GI kept the peace and the American citizen paid to rebuild both places - that is a long time for peaceful existence.

Why wouldn’t the presence of American forces in Iraq (with no ROE’s) haven’t able to do the same for the ME??