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Michael's avatar

People like to pretend that every conflict is WW2 and we can create a new Marshall Plan, forgetting that Europe and Japan had coherent national identities before they were destroyed. They were both also developed economies.

But how do you create a national identity for a region that has none? Seems like it would have been feasible to dismantle terrorist organizations without a full scale invasion.

It sort of irks me how much heat Democrats get on foreign policy when Republicans invaded two nations with seemingly no real plan (or a really naive plan). Bush was warned - if you break it, you own it.

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Migs's avatar

Absolutely. Republicans are good at breaking things and dems are force to clean it up.

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