But it was worth it.

And then there was [link|http://www.defenddemocracy.org/in_the_media/in_the_media_show.htm?doc_id=192026&attrib_id=7378|the Civil War]. No wait, that's an American war so we need to give it a snide, America-blaming name. Make sure we blame the side that went on to become what America is now. How about "the War of Northern Agression?" No doubt that will meet with the Chomskybots' approval.

[link|http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=9651|Extrapolate from history to more recent times]

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As the daily headlines make clear, the task is not going to be easy. Historian Douglas Porch, writing in The National Interest, argues that the occupation of Japan and Germany didn't go swimmingly, either. "American occupiers assumed that, once the virus of authoritarian rule had been purged, grateful Japanese and Germans would enthusiastically embrace democracy. Instead, U.S. reformers encountered torpor, resentment and resistance."

The de-Nazification process, now recalled as a stunning success, was perceived at the time as a failure because it created a "community of fate" between the lowest Nazi functionary and the Gestapo. And Konrad Adenauer complained that if he followed U.S. guidelines, only Germans older than 65 or younger than 20 would have qualified for government service.

I say:

Odd how certain people - presumably adults - seem to think that something taking years ought to be a problem. Goodness, if we never undertook anything that would take years, we'd still be in the Stone Age.

And I was willing from the beginning to see it through to the end.

WITHOUT those lying thieving bastards at the United Nations. If we let them have any decision-making influence, we may [link|http://www.thehollandsentinel.net/stories/062500/new_troops.html|never be finished there].