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To: onedoug
We had plenty of success in dealing with postwar Japan. I naively envisioned a military government set-up within Iraq that would operate similarly...and I still believe could have. Though, damn, was I ever wrong.

The Japanese are a monolithic people, willing to join together to do whatever it takes to ensure the future of Japan, including bowing down to temporary American hegemony. Iraq is made up of at least four separate groups of people (sunni, shia, Kurds, Christians) with four separate agendas, and convincing them to work together would have taken much longer--and it's too late now, thank you Barack Obama.

48 posted on 06/22/2014 10:34:18 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin
... and convincing them to work together would have taken much longer ...

Like maybe 500 years.

51 posted on 06/22/2014 10:37:43 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
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