"US is abandoning plans to introduce democracy in Iraq"

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 18 06:52:14 PST 2003


The only changes would be the replacement
> of
> >President Saddam and his lieutenants with senior US
> >military officers.
>
> Which is pretty much what the U.S. did in Germany &
> Japan in 1945, right?
>
> Doug

Not really. In both states, the most important institutions of the previous regimes -- the military and the secret police -- were pretty much systematically dismantled. Genuine parlaiments were created (in the case of Germany, re-created). I believe the education ministries were thoroughly revamped. In Germany at least there was a fair amoiunt of attention paid to re-creating a non-totalitarian legal systems. The "People's Courts" were abolished. There were sharp limits to de-Nazification, of course. but it's just not the case that in either state it was the ancien regime with a few new American faces at the top.

jks

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