[MarkL]

IIRC, the same thing was said about Japan after WWII. Funny how they took to it when it was forced on them. It's a shame we didn't use the same technique in Iraq from day 1.

Mark

[pinkpanther111]

I don't think its possible. In Japan you didn't have to deal with that religion of peace, ISLAM.

ISLAM is incompatible with democracy, unless you can get the Iraqi's to drop this as the national religion they will never be successful in building a true democracy.

[Loud Mime]

Emperor Hirohito told the Japanese to surrender. There's no similar act on behalf of the muslim savages.

[RobbyS]

Any Englishman of the 18th Century would have said the same thing about India. Yet two centuries under the Britsh Raj did produce a democracy, even though that was not the intention of the British. Eighty years of British rule came close to such a result in Egypt; a lesser time in Nigeria had some sucess. Fourteen years of rule in Iraq did not.
Is it surprising that in four years we have not?

[WhirlwindAttack]

IIRC, the same thing was said about Japan after WWII. Funny how they took to it when it was forced on them. It's a shame we didn't use the same technique in Iraq from day 1.

Yes but he handed the Japanese their asses first. We did not pussy foot around with them. Crush your enemies. Drive them before you. And hear the lamentations of the women. Then maybe you can rehabilitate them democratically.