That link via Pathetic Earthlings, which fisks a critique of the Iraq occupation. What's amusing is that the critique cites McArthur's occupation of Japan as a good model, while maintaining that we've already overstayed our welcome. PE points out:
We took Baghdad on April 9, 2003. It's now July 18. That's about eighteen weeks. [Actually more like 15 weeks. - ed.] And, apparently, the United States needs to leave yesterday.
We took Japan in September 1945. We handed over power to civilian authorities in 1952. - about 360 weeks later. The way this cat figures it, we should have left Japan around Christmas Eve, 1945.
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