On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 9, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
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> I find those opposing the occupations (because of all the predictable
>> anti-imperialist boilerplate) while supporting Reconstruction to be rather
>> silly. There may be some intelligent left distinction between the three
>> scenarios, but I have yet to see it and cannot imagine what it might be
>>
>
> Well, as I keep saying, there's a difference between reintegrating a
> portion of one's country that lost a civil war and occupying a foreign
> country. That aside, as occupations go, U.S. control of Japan and Germany
> wasn't very brutal. It's not something I'd waste a lot of words on, for
> sure.