"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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In neither Germany and Japan were there
multiple, imbedded groups of armed, organized opponents to the
installed regimes, with worldwide networks of financial and logistical
support.

The Germans still managed to run a very efficient and effective
underground,
smuggling ex-Nazi officials to South America, and the Japanese managed to
retain their system of economic favoritism, which amounted to an economic
underground.

German and Japanese acquiescence was due partly to the fact that they were
so thoroughly and utterly defeated that there was simply no "fight" left
in
them. Maybe that's what will be necessary in this war, too?

Which is why I obliquely pointed out (in another post) the difference
between the "total war" of WW2 and the limited war we're fighting today.


That is our intent in Iraq. My prediction is that it will not work.

I fear you may be right, but it is our duty to try. The alternatives are
simply not acceptable.

I'd give the odds at no better than 10:1 until there's a significant
cultural change in the Middle East.