After WWII, with the guiding hand of a well-intentioned American government, the newly-liberated Imperial Japanese quickly got their act together. Just look at Japan today. The country is a miracle. At the time, based on this thinking, President George W. Bush’s doctrine of spreading democracy in the Middle East seemed like a good idea to me, a way to both do some actual good for tens of millions of oppressed people while making America more secure based on the historical fact that democracies do not make war with one another.
Today that thinking feels naïve.
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