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To: Sherman Logan
WM: the opportunity to civilize a barbarian culture.

SL: Quite beyond our means, at least using methods we're presently willing to use.

We did it in Japan after WWII.

It's just a matter of asserting our will to impose a superior culture. Unfortunately, we are no longer the country that believes in our superiority and we are watching the rise of barbarism throughout the world as a result.

39 posted on 06/15/2014 12:00:09 PM PDT by wmfights
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To: wmfights

Japan was in most ways considerably more civilized than Arab countries today. Remodeling their culture consisted largely of deleting A and encouraging B.

We also had the immense advantage of the tacit or open support of the Emperor, as well as the psychological impact of utter and crushing defeat.

Finally, the Japanese have always been a people peculiarly anxious to import foreign ideas, though adapting them to their own uses. The Meiji Restoration and Japanese political history up through the 20s was largely that of an extended attempt to impose western-style civil society on Japan.

The militaristic revival after that and thru WWII was a xenophobic return to (one aspect of) Japanese native culture. When it failed so completely, they were entirely open to new ideas.

I don’t think we have any of that in the Middle East.


43 posted on 06/15/2014 12:15:29 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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To: wmfights
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It's just a matter of asserting our will to impose a superior culture.
If you read the book linked, above, you will understand the reason for the failure of the above statement.

To Nutshell it: You cannot impose a Superior culture on a SUPERIOR Culture.
Whatever We do is by default Automatically inferiour ,they are just so SUPERIOR.

44 posted on 06/15/2014 12:43:28 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. ........dot removal in progress.......)
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