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Originally Posted by irisher  This will do nothing to solve the strife in the long run. Analogies to Japan and Germany are flawed, because:
a) Neither country was on the brink of civil war at the end WWII. |
because the allies had just kicked the **** out of them and the citizens just wanted to get on w/ their lives
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Originally Posted by irisher b) The character and method of the Marshall Plan was profoundly different than the corporate boondoggle that is the Iraq Reconstruction. |
If Japan or Germany had had terrorists bombing the soldiers that were liberating the general public, they would have been killed by the general public. Aren't some Iraqi citizens turning in insurgents?
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Originally Posted by irisher c) The political conflicts between the US and the Middle East are different than those that motivated WWII. |
This is more a religious conflict, not a political one.
d) Both Japan and Germany had some expectation of LIVING and existing as a country after WWII. It was also in our best interest to see that they existed (and succeeded) as countrys after we left. This was the mistake after WWI that Germany was left in such shambles that it helped lead to Hitler coming to power.
Terrorists have no country. They just want all Western civilization destroyed (starting w/ the US and Israel), and they have publically said all along that this is their goal.