2006-12-09 11:26:11 · 23 answers · asked by 43 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
SO maybe not smarter, wiser
But they must have been more motivated to have a working government
2006-12-09 11:31:11 · update #1
No, its because Bush was not President at the time...
2006-12-09 11:30:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
In Islam there is no separation between church and state. The state is the church, and the government is to be run on Islamic beliefs and tradition. This would not be so bad if there was a consensus within the Iraqi people, but there is none.
There is also a huge issue with "American" democracy, the Muslim conservatives do not want to be modeled after us. Perhaps in this situation democracy will not work for Iraq. They are so unstable and so divided that a consensus will not be reached at this time. The United States should realize that not everyone wants to be like America.
2006-12-09 11:38:00 · answer #2 · answered by Pilar L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It didn't took the Japanese 3 month to form a Democracy after WW ll. The Japanese have nothing to do with the type of government that the USA imposed on them. The war on Japan was so devastated and the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan that the Japanese people accepted everything that the USA give them,, they were morally destroyed. But the changes have proves that was good for the Japanese people. It was so good that they took their economy and turned it around to be what is today, one of the best in the world. The problems with Irak are that there are too many people giving opinion about how thing should be done. If General MacArthur would being in charged, he would a send everybody in Washington to hell and did things his way, like he did in Japan after the war. Right now too many politicians are given all kind of opinions with out knowing sh-t about what is happening in Irak.. Something like this happened in Vietnam and is happening again with Irak.. Good luck..
2006-12-09 11:48:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
After its surrender, American Forces under General MacArthur started the re-building plan with millions of dollars poring in from the U.S.A.. MacArthur was the person in charge second only to the Emperor and established a manufacturing industry destroyed by the war as well as other industries and jobs along the the same as the U.S. economy.The Japanese are very smart at duplication of western ideas and from there, go on with imagination to seek perfection. There is no sectarian wrath there or rage. at the time, just a desire for peace and prosperity. Yes, I would say from the quality and quantity of products that we import from Japan at present, they are indeed much smarter and quite intelligent.
2006-12-09 11:35:36 · answer #4 · answered by Ted 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Japanese people had absolute unquestioning obedience to the Emperor, so when he said they would be a democracy, a democracy they became. Iraqis did not have anythign like such devotion to Sadam.
It is no measure of 'intelligence' as to whether a country can support a democracy. George Washington was seriously considering making the US a monarchy!
2006-12-09 11:32:28 · answer #5 · answered by Mordent 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Opponents of democracy were a small minority and anyone who opposed it would face the wrath of a country that just anhilated--atom bombed--two of their cities and fire bombed others.
The message was clear, get it together, or Uncle will do it for you.
Under the same circumstances, Iraq would probably take a few weeks to form a working democracy. Unfortunately for all involved, this isn't the 40s. Now things are done more delicately and. . .more deadly.
2006-12-09 11:41:56 · answer #6 · answered by Barry L 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I personally think the Japanese of that time were noble. When they signed for defeat they excepted it. We rebuilt them and now we have good business relations and even friends to my knowledge. The insurgency in Iraq isn't coming as much from within as without. Syria, Iran and parts of Lebanon. Lebanon was just threatened by Hezbollah so I think that is a good indicator they are turning. If the terrorist would stop antagonizing Iraq they would grow into a strong country. Iraq as well as all countries will always have a problem somewhere.
2006-12-09 11:37:07 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Japan is not a democracy. It is a constitutional monarchy. That is also a misconception. Japanese are not more intelligent than us, they have a better work ethic. In addition the Emperor had virtually no power during and after World War II. Holy ****, we are NOT a Democracy. We are a Democratic-Republic.
2006-12-09 11:33:36 · answer #8 · answered by ☠Skull Cleaner☠ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Geography has much to do with Japan having a homogenius culture and society. Unlike Iraq, it was not cobbled together from disparate elements of the old Ottoman Empire and given to King Fiesal to rule by GB after WWI.
What would they have to argue about internally? Iraq, like Yugoslavia, is not really a nation. Japan IS, Was, and always will be.
2006-12-09 11:29:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Keep in mind that the Japanese had the CRAP bombed out of them three times. Doolittles Raiders in 1942, plus the pair of nuclear detonations on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They saw what could happen and it STILL took Hirohito to finally open his mouth and speak for himself before the nutjob military under-dictatorship that Heideki Tojo had finally got the message to give it up of get the crap beat out of them again. Once they did that they got the idea that capitalism rocks and now who is winning all the market share in the world? Im not angry that they did that, rather impressed.
2006-12-09 11:38:49 · answer #10 · answered by JBC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The US conquered Japan and imposed a government. In Iraq the US removed a government but then left it up to them to start over.
2006-12-09 11:31:46 · answer #11 · answered by Sun and Sand 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋