Thoughtful analysis, but your analogy does injustice to the Germans and the Japs. They were (are) a cultured, civilized people. When the occupiers enforced order, the occupied rebuilt roads, infrastructure. The industrious locals took over reconstruction (sure the Marshall plan injected resources, but there were still German engineers, builders, etc).
These idiots have no skills, have no civilization. As occupiers today we have to protect them from each other -and- wipe their butts for them. They are no more than violent children and I keep falling back into a despair that maybe a tyrant like Hussein is all they deserve or understand.
Axis civilization was about at "Atlas Shrugged" Page 30ish.....Muslim civilization is like page 300ish if you get my drift.
Beg to differ, but the Japanese were pretty damn fanatical. The "Rape of Nanking", the kamikazes, and hundreds of our soldiers who were summarily beheaded after capture were almost unprecedented in the level of cruelty the Japanese army displayed -- heck, the Japanese government envisioned sending every man, woman, and child into battle if it came to that. The firebombing of Tokyo cured the civilian population of any fanaticism they had. We haven't come close to approaching the amount of death and destruction we inflicted (rightfully) on the Japanese in terms of the current conflict.
But you are right - there is neither skill nor civilization in the Middle East....