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Hitchens on Palin: 'A Disgraceful Opportunist and Real Moral Coward'

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus12/15/2009 1:31:38 pm PST

re: #11 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Which is why we still have bases in Germany and Japan 60+ years later.

Those bases had little to nothing to do with nation building, though, after the original occupation. Both Germany and Japan had mature, productive societies that happened to take wrong turns. Democracy and law were not foreign to them.