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To: Bilow who wrote (34623)	7/18/2002 7:55:19 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Carl, Your usually not this glib or wrong. Our military success against Japan and Germany happened because we killed several percent of their populations. Our success in transforming them into viable members of a democratic, western society happened because we were heavily engaged in their internal affairs post-war. We wrote the Japanese constitution, designed their governments and stayed engaged for a number of years. Still - I doubt you could make a case that they 'love' the US anymore than the Vietnamese do. Iran was a case where we did all the same type of intervention as in post-war Germany, but there was never any military involvement (advisors sure - but we never fought them). Killing 7 to 10% of the population of Iraq would just create more problems if it wasn't followed by a Marshal Plan. BTW Why is it ok to kill a huge percentage of a countries population in a convential war when decapitating the leadership with a nuclear strike is immoral (and might take less than 1%)? John