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Comparing the rebuilding of Europe and Japan to the nation building in the Iraq and Afghanistan makes my point. Europeans wanted to return to normal. The Japanese wanted to return to normal.

Islamic countries want to burn the world to bring the 12th Imam. They used democracy to vote in sharia rule.

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remember that after Versailles Hitler promised the Germans not just a return to prosperity, but a chance to achieve destiny. They bought it. One of the lessons learned and reason the occupation of Germany was expected to last at least for a generation if not longer.

After Bush gave Iraq a political fresh start, a power sharing western-style constitution, elections, a functioning economic infrastructure, a $19 billion purged and rebuilt military and police force, and gave Petraeus the troops and mission to gain the cooperation of the provincial and traditional authorities in driving out the foreigners and neutralizing radicals..

obama gave the country 3 years.

the Germans were willing to vote in the Nazis to restore social order, many Russians still prefer the rule of an iron fist, and the muslims are willing to vote in sharia for many of the same compulsions for social order

No saying I have a solution but sharia is just a horse of a different color when it comes to people freely choosing totalitarianism. We are sliding into soft totalitarianism in our own country