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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (2622)	12/9/2005 6:04:51 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 71588

Our liberation of Iraq does have similarities to Japan after WWII. It also resembles Germany after WWII. A major difference is that both of those were defeated militarily. The soldiers were mostly dead or jailed. In Iraq the opposition left their posts and melted into the population. Neither Germany nor Japan had any significant influx of foreigners bent on defeating the liberators. It is more like Afghanistan. But, there is no large military power to keep the Iraqi terrorists supplied. The Iranians are sending explosives and Syria is harboring terrorists, but they do not have the strength that China had in Vietnam.