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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] I'm not sure anyone is going to argue against self-determintion as a general principle, and the argument about whether you can force someone to be self-determined is probably a paradoxical nightmare; the real issue, or so it seems to me, is whether this ever works as a practical policy in the real world. Japan and Germany have been the magic words when the White House and others have talked about Iraq and the Bush Doctrine in general. (Those in favor of it, I mean.) Yet they always seem to overlook that both nations were heavily industrialized and had metabolized "Western Culture" pretty thoroughly. In both cases the source of their troubles, at least from our point of view, could be easily quantified: a select party/ideology that had taken control of the government. No one had to introduce the basic principles of a Western-style free society to the average citizen. In addition, Germany, and to a lesser extent Japan, were restored to a community they had formerly been a part of, not thrust into one with which they had had no experience and shared few ties. In contrast, Iraq and Afghanistan (especially Afghanistan) are not wayward Western or Westernized nations that have succumbed, as if it were the latest fad, to some political philosophy at odds with our own. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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