2007-09-01 05:05:29 · 12 answers · asked by Page 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The Japanese surrended unconditionally after total defeat and the whole world acknowledged the legality and necessity of Allied occupation.
They had a homogeneous culture which did not feature the ethnic, tribal, and religious divisions so evident in Iraq.
2007-09-01 05:07:58 · update #1
The Japanese were conditioned to obey the command of the emperor to accept defeat and submit to their conquerors. They even had some experience with limited democracy.
And Iraq is MUCH RICHER in natural resources... BINGO!!!!
2007-09-01 05:10:23 · update #2
Bush is an uncultured, cheer-leading drunkard, who would be unknown today with any other family name. He was fortunate in meeting Karl Rove, the evil genius who knew exactly what to say to the 50% of voters with below-average intelligence and how to lie to the other half.
The ideal President would be a wise, cultured person with real managment experience, with or without and MBA. He would surround himself with a variety of brilliant advisors, explain his goals, and listen carefully to their advice. Then he would pick the best advice.
Bush is the exact opposite of the ideal. But, unfortunately, he is not that much more incompetent than his predecesssors.
Truman agreed to the British invasion of Greece in 1945 and equiped the French so they could invade Vietnam in 1946 and, eventually, a disastrous war. He scared Stalin into looking for ways to prevent a further "rollback" away from his war gains. That started the Cold War.
Eisenhower removed Mossadegh from power in Iran in 1953 because he was a moderate nationalist who wanted to cotrol Iran's oil. Instead, Iran got the Shah and, eventually, Khomeni and the current extremists. Where will it end? Stay tuned.
Kennedy blew it with the Bay of Pigs and Vietnam. Three weeks after he ordered Diem removed from power in Vietnam, his own head was blown off much like Diem's.
Johnson continued the Vietnam disaster and kicked an elected moderate president out of Guatemala leading, eventually, to the genocide of 500,000 Mayans.
Nixon kept the Vietnam war going for an additional four years so he could win a second term. The cost: about a million Vietnamese lives and 25,000 American lives. There's no use talking about money.
I neglected to mention the murder of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo, leading, eventually, to decades of genocide and the current mess. There is also the ousting of Salvador Allende, the elected president of Chile, and other murders and attempted murders, but you get the idea.
Every nation gets the leader it deserves.
2007-09-01 07:06:04 · answer #1 · answered by marvinsussman@sbcglobal.net 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's hard to add more you are right. Japan is a culture that were taught to obey those in authority, and if they were asked to fight to the last man or women that would have, but lucky for us those in charge choose to surrender. So when we instituted Marshall law they obeyed. Where in Iraq not only were they tribal, the foreign fighters that also wanted take a bite out of the USA
2007-09-01 12:20:17 · answer #2 · answered by jean 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bush Junta evidently believes its own propaganda even though almost none of it has any basis in reality. As a rule, when we observe people such as Bush and the series of cold war retreads that pull his strings express ideas that are at odds with reality we assume they require some sort of medication. I believe this is the case with the current administration. I have a creepy feeling that George Bush is totally out of his mind. I don't mean that as a chop, but as a fact....this man is insane and I have an even creeper feeling that the people he stooges for know it. History has many examples of heads of state that were mentally disturbed, there's no reason to assume that George Bush could not be one of them. We may be in deeper trouble than we know.
2007-09-01 12:21:48 · answer #3 · answered by Noah H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have not seen or read this. I have been trying to avoid politics lately. However Bush will use whatever his handlers think will calm the masses to continue his insanity in Iraq. My understanding is that the report coming out has been edited by the Whitehouse. The one thing to remember anything coming out of Bushes mouth is coming from the American Enterprise Institute or Cheney. Bush is so pathetic.
2007-09-01 13:01:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are still in Japan and just like Japan ,Iraq will remain occupied for the next 50 years or till the oil runs out .
2007-09-01 12:15:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bush used an example American are familiar with, if even, as an analogy towards Iraq, it is a weak one for the reasons you have pointed out.
2007-09-01 12:11:06 · answer #6 · answered by alphabetsoup2 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because he's blowing smoke up Americas rear again, Iraq is to Japan what elephants are to walnuts. Occupation? it's a shame he never had one before politics( daddy's). we would be better off today if he knew something(anything) first hand.
2007-09-01 12:39:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kermit M got it right, except that when he says "the average American" he meant the 'Average United Statesian'. That said it also applies to the average American but Americans in Brazil or Bolivia where not in Bush's mind at the time he made that comment.
2007-09-01 12:15:54 · answer #8 · answered by r1b1c* 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He's grasping at straws and knows the average American has no clue about the occupation of Japan.
As you rightly point out, they are not similar in any way.
2007-09-01 12:10:24 · answer #9 · answered by KERMIT M 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
ah yes, and i bet if he had his way he would toast them into oblivion into an unconditional surrender as we did japan!!!
2007-09-01 12:13:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋