[CyberAnt]

Japan had never been a democracy either - but after a few years, they have turned out to be one of the most stable.

This is just more of the leftist whining - prompted by the DNC - McAwful - Hitlery - Daschle - etc. So what else is new.

[Captain Kirk]

Japan *did* have a recent of democratic tradition of free elections and a free press in the 1920s. The Japan/Germany analogy simply will not work is wishful conservative (formely liberal) utopian wishful thinking.