Right Thinking From The Left Coast
"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Thursday, June 26, 2008

The Difference
by West Virginia Rebel

On why Iraq is not just “Germany with Muslims.”

It is the fact in the aftermath of World War II, both Germany and Japan had been conquered by the United States and her allies in a wars of aggression that Germany and Japan had started. The civilian populations of each country, whatever their war guilt, had experienced shattering levels of violence and privation in the final years of the war. And both countries were immediately faced by nearby hostile powers they feared much more than the United States. There are almost countless differences between the two historical situations, either separate from these points or growing out them.

We also knew what we were doing after the war. McArthur earned the respect of the Japanese because he respected them. In Germany we had a country divided in half, the cooperation of our allies and the fear of a Soviet invasion to make the occupation work. In Iraq, there was no such competence, and our weaknesses and arrogance became all too apparent.

Posted by West Virginia Rebel on 06/26/08 at 05:21 PM in War on Terror/Axis of Evil  • (6) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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