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To: Dayuhan who wrote (43400)	9/12/2002 3:11:49 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) of 281500

You posted: Yes. And after we invade, we will give them a new set of despot rulers who will do exactly the same thing until they are deposed by yet another set, while the people remain poor, disenfranchised, unemployed, and undereducated. Only this time they will be our puppets, and the poor fuckers under them will have a real reason to be angry at us. To which I replied: The Germans and the Japanese don't seem to share your pessimism towards American magnanimity in victory. My point being: We didn't install dictators in West Germany or Japan or any of the other nations we liberated or helped liberate throughout Europe and the Pacific. The same applies to Afghanistan, even though it would have been much easier for us to just let Rabbani take the gig and leave it at that. When the US has had to rebuild a nation - it has built democratic institutions there. No, Iraq is not nearly as homogeneous as Japan or Germany. But Iraq will not be a ruin after a US invasion, unlike Germany, and even Iraq is more acclimated to republicanism than the Japanese were, even if it is fake democracy. And unlike Germany or Japan, Iraq has tremendous oil riches to fund its restructuring. Derek

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