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To: CountofMoneyCristo who wrote (5652)	10/16/2001 6:39:51 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Respond to of 281500

The populations in question are equally as responsible as the United States for the success of those efforts. They were culturally amenable to the democratic, pluralistic concept. That's not the case everywhere. I think we've implicitly understood this and that has been reflected in our policy, as hypocritical as it has often made us appear on the surface.

To: CountofMoneyCristo who wrote (5652)	10/16/2001 6:58:40 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Agree with the latter part of your comments about doing this for our kid's benefit. But unfortunately, I don't think Japan is as stable as we'd like to think it is. Too many older institutions still in place that prevent needed economic and political reform. But they're better than they were before the war. As for Germany, I think that was well done and I don't feel nearly as concerned about a return to tyranny there. But for Japan to pull itself out of their economic depression, they are going to have to devalue the yen, monetize their national debt, and screw a bunch of their retirement age pensioners, who have been saving all that money. If you recall, the US was forced to devalue the dollar back in the mid-1930's, as well as confiscating gold. That can create tremendous resentment among the people and bring governments down. Hawk