[BlazingArizona]

What did Roosevelt know, and when did he know it?

What gives him the idea that we could bring democracy to a country that has known only 2000 years of unbroken imperial lineage?

[dinok]

"What did Roosevelt know, and when did he know it?"

We all know that Roosevelt got us in the war to get the Jap...anese out of the oil fields of Indonesia. And George Bush senior fought against the Jap...anese.

Bush, Roosevelt and Big oil.

[Auntie Dem]

What gives him the idea that we could bring democracy to a country that has known only 2000 years of unbroken imperial lineage?

You mean Japan is now operating under a Democracy?

You must be wrong, it couldn't happen...2,000 years PROVE that.

Maybe Japan is some sort of exception to the rule..you know, just because Asians are so smart. Those stupid Arabs, though, will NEVER be able to handle Democracy (I would have preferred a Representative Republic). (end sarcasm)