Re: What 'War' Was That Idiot Talking about?

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:31:43 -0500, Gary DeWaay
<dewaay2spikeNOT@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>The difference is that with the two Marshall Plan countries, we were 
>dealing with countries that both had a strong sense of nationality, and 
>both were very sick of war.  Thus it made sense to build them up.

Not to mention we were dealing with countries that had planned to go
to war and invaded others. In Iraq we are dealing with a country that
was invaded and occupied.  Their national pride will not allow this to
stay that way. Comparing Vietnam and North Korea is bogus because we
were asked in by our puppet governments and went in as allies of the
government. 

>In contrast, the Iraqi's have already been fighting each other for 
>thousands of years (and will prolly be fighting each other for another 
>thousand) and have more of a tribal mentality than a national 
>mentality... there's nothing to build on.  They could give a **** less 
>about a strong "Iraq."  The nation is meaningless to them. The Japanese 
>people WANTED to rebuild Japan, as well as the Germans.  Thus it made 
>sense to rebuild them and make them our allies.  How do you make someone 
>want to rebuild something they don't care about?
>
>I read all of this BEFORE we invaded.  Too bad morons like you and the 
>neo-cons don't have access to things like the USA Today or something.