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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (182126)2/19/2006 11:45:32 AM
From: neolib  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
I thought that was what we did when the Japanese surrendered and Korea was liberated?

Certainly we did in Japan, but neither Taiwan nor Korea surrendered to us. They took a much longer road to Democracy.

Japan is IMO, the outstanding example of a foreign power remaking, for the better, a different society. Germany is not the same, since they already experienced it.

Nor did the USSR's support for insurgents "help" the situation

Agreed.

Regarding Castro, he is another example of one I'd like to have seen shown the door, in the mode of the Pineapple of Panama. Doubt it would have been difficult from the 1980's on. The biggest problem would have been the hit to American perception by much of the rest of the world.

Part of that is our own fault in that we often entangle our own interests (such as oil in the ME) with the more noble goal of simply bettering the lives of those who live under despots. The problem in Central America is that to many of the rotten apples were of our own making.

I really have no idea how Iraq will turn out. My gut level feeling is we have made too many mistakes and rather screwed the place up. It is very difficult to extract a happy ending under such conditions. If, by some miracle it does work out, my compliments to all those who hung in there and made it happen. They are indeed deserving of it.
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