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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: LindyBill who wrote (9805)9/29/2003 6:48:13 AM
From: unclewest   of 793800
 
Postwar Germans and Japanese were patriotic, cooperative peoples ready for democracy. Postwar Iraqis live in a system of clans and tribes, like the Hatfields and the McCoys

The NYT missed both the differences and the similarities.

The Germans had the Jews and The Aryans; and the Northern High Germans and the Southern Bavarians.
The Japanese have their own indigenous tribes and clans too...especially in Northern Japan.

The difference between Iraq and the Germans and Japanese is the latter two had been pounded into total submission and unconditional surrender.

Many more Iraqis would have had to die to create the same dynamics.
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