USA: Invasion, Then Nation Building

Originally posted by Teinosuke
Japan's done amazingly well in 1945, but that doesn't mean we can regard it as evidence of the success of the kind of neo-liberal capitalism that has been in vogue in the United States during the past thirties years. The people in charge of the Occupation of Japan worked mainly under the influence of the New Deal and pursued redistributive and egalitarian ...[text shortened]... and China. Had he been successful, China's postwar history might have been much gentler.

still, the japanese became and remain socialist-capitalists, not just socialists. like the US!

p.s.,

from someone who was around (and aware) when the Marshall Plan was invoked. i was looking for his column on Dean Acheson (from his third hardcopy collection, The Americans) but apparently it's not online.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/letter_from_america/2557967.stm

Originally posted by FMF
Look it up. It's not any kind of secret. You could do The Wikipedia cut and paste. Why haven't you? Interesting.

to me, it means somewhere around seven. more than a few, less than many. like five-six-seven.

who knows what it means to you?

Originally posted by FMF
Didn't the U.S. put Marines into several Latin American countries over thelast 150 years in an effort to exert some guiding handery to their incompatible economies?

A lot of that was ugly. But they are missing from the OP selection. Oh.

Cuba, for instance. Although those weren't just marines -- regular infantry and cavalry as well.

Now, at that time, popular opinion was aligned against the cruel atrocities of the evil Catholic Spanish Empire. I don't think Hearst would have drummed up much support by asserting the need for a "guiding hand" in an independent Cuban economy. Just doesn't have much of a ring to it.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Maybe that's the key. Those three are doing extremely well.

Considering that they were doing well before the invasions, it is most likely that their current success is a shadow of what they could have been. Both Germany and Japan were set to take over the world!

Originally posted by twhitehead
Considering that they were doing well before the invasions, it is most likely that their current success is a shadow of what they could have been. Both Germany and Japan were set to take over the world!

der alvays vill be a Deutschland und Deutschland vill be free.........OOPS scratch that....

Originally posted by twhitehead
Considering that they were doing well before the invasions, it is most likely that their current success is a shadow of what they could have been. Both Germany and Japan were set to take over the world!

reminds me of the movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.