Letters to the Editor
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100 years ...
What if he's right, though?
It sounds crazy, but ... there have been American troops in Germany and Japan for sixty years. There are, even now, more US troops in both Germany and Japan than in Iraq. Literally millions of Americans have served in Germany and no-one even notices or objects or worries about the expense.
And the surge in Germany is working. Compare the last sixty years with the sixty years before that.
Germany and Japan have gone from America's worst enemies to their strongest allies. They've gone from expansionist warlords to the most stable democracies. They took their neighboring countries with them.
If America can do for Iraq what it did for Germany, and for the Middle East what it did for Eastern Europe, then it would be worth it. No question, a blank check and it would still be worth it.
If America had been out of Germany by 1950, the world today would look very different.