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ChicagoRonin

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10. Not really applicable

Reply to dsc (Original post)

Sat Aug 14, 2021, 12:14 PM

Aug 2021

For all the reasons previously mentioned and then some. By the wartime period, Japan already had all the trappings of a modern nation: standardized education, electrified infrastructure, public transportation, factories, professional bureaucracy, political parties, etc. The Occupation didn't have to build out any of that (aside from what needed to be REbuilt after wartime bombing). And despite the cultural nationalism that reared its head in Japan during the war, you had a population that readily embraced Western ideas and entertainment, especially in peacetime. During the Korean War, occupied Japan was a very welcoming go-to spot for R&R for American soldiers.

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Should our occupation of Afghanistan been more like that of Japan? [View all] dsc Aug 2021 OP

It wouldn't have made a difference underpants Aug 2021 #1

Japan was United under an emperor, Afghanistan is tribal under war lords, no? JohnSJ Aug 2021 #2

This is the correct answer Sympthsical Aug 2021 #27

Appreciate the insight JohnSJ Aug 2021 #28

I don't know. We had a flatten two cities with atom bombs to get that to work Walleye Aug 2021 #3

I don't think we had a lack of fire power in Afghanistan dsc Aug 2021 #5

Well I hope we've learned one or two things Walleye Aug 2021 #6

That might have worked IF we dropped a couple nukes on Afghanistan first. Runningdawg Aug 2021 #4

How would Haliburton made money in a radioactive zone then? irisblue Aug 2021 #14

I'm sure Air America has made the poppy fields safe. Runningdawg Aug 2021 #29

No tradition of liberal democracy as we know it, but...and here's the big but.... paleotn Aug 2021 #7

Japan was Asia in terms of power projection to be sure dsc Aug 2021 #8

In Japan, the emperor said: do it! keithbvadu2 Aug 2021 #9

Not really applicable ChicagoRonin Aug 2021 #10

Japan was not committed to living in the 5th century. alphafemale Aug 2021 #11

not a good parallel. Japan had a well established social order in a very small island irisblue Aug 2021 #12

Japan and Afghanistan are not at all comparable Hekate Aug 2021 #13

+1. Or Vietnam and Afghanistan dalton99a Aug 2021 #15

If we are considering what we should have done: Voltaire2 Aug 2021 #16

So, we are now the arbiters of which countries need to be "remade"? GoCubsGo Aug 2021 #17

we were at war with them dsc Aug 2021 #18

They found Bin Laden in Pakistan. GoCubsGo Aug 2021 #19

When did we declare that war? Voltaire2 Aug 2021 #25

Another HUGE difference: Japan threatened the U.S.'s existence, Hortensis Aug 2021 #20

we did the work dsc Aug 2021 #21

Whatever? The point is little things like UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER Hortensis Aug 2021 #24

I can't stop thinking how in pre-WW2 Japan girls from poor families were sold as betsuni Aug 2021 #22

We shouldn't have occupied period. That was the mistake. JoanofArgh Aug 2021 #23

That would not have "worked." David__77 Aug 2021 #26