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Originally Posted by crockett
The invasion of Iraq and Bush admins lack of planning for the aftermath and the direct result of a vacuum of power, led to the formation of ISIS and tens of thousands of deaths.. including many American soldiers and countless civilians.
You should care..
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I disagree. There is always a power vacuum at the end of a war. However, this was vastly different than Germany or Japan after WWII.
First, there is a new way fighting wars. We are "too nice". At the close of WWII the governments, military, and general population of Germany and Japan were just utterly exhausted. They had five or six years of unrestricted warfare that brought everyone to their knees. This never happened with Iraq - it was over too quick, and they just picked up their pieces and went back to what they doing as if nothing ever happened.
Second, for political reasons, we didn't want to occupy Iraq. Look at how we treated Germany and Japan for decades. To this day the United States still has large military bases and both countries. And we will for decades to come.
War is a final option, and it needs to be brutal. Not only do you need to destroy the will of the government and the military to continue the fight, but you also have to break the will of the people. The people themselves have to say "Holy shit, I am going through that again and I will spend the rest of my life ensuring it doesn't happen again". We don't that have now. Instead of rising up from the ashes and discovering every last person in their family is dead, they just brush themselves off and are back in business in three days.