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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Neocon who wrote (116820)10/14/2003 6:31:34 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Hi Neocon; Re: "Without deNazification and the Marshall Plan, it is easy to envision a seething mass of discontent and radical political infighting, similar to that which lead to Hitler's ascent to power."

In light of the gift that the neoconservatives have for imagining what would have happened if we hadn't bombed the bejesus out of Germany and Japan, it's somewhat ironic that their fatal defect was to fail to realize that Iraq, having not had the bejesus bombed out of it, would not be in the same defeated mood that Germany and Japan were, but instead would be in a mood for continuing the war.

I told you that this is what would happen as long as a year ago, and therefore Bush wouldn't opt to try and occupy Iraq.

Instead, he went in, and having followed the bankrupt foreign policy of Israel, he ended up with the same problems.

-- Carl
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