Win the Peace in Iraq

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We did it in Japan and Germany

Summary

We can destroy terrorism in Iraq, thus truly winning the Peace. We did it before in Germany and Japan after World War II. We handled them so well that Americans have forgotten the loathing we once felt toward those nations, how savage they were. These nations are both among the top ten economic powerhouses of the world. More important, they are trustworthy and honest. We like and admire them now.

In March, 2007, we are using different methods in Iraq, not what worked. And we are losing. Terrorism increases, and America is losing patience. This situation must be handled fast, or we will leave Iraq. Terrorism will be what pushed us out, therefore a successful tactic. So terrorism will increase and ultimately millions, or even billions will die. The economics of the whole world will be disrupted by a monstrous few.

To turn the situation around, we need to contact the GIs who were there AFTER World War II, and get their stories into every type of magazine and newspaper we can, from politics to fishing, so that everywhere one turns around, one sees what worked. This will build understanding from the bottom to the top. All America will know what needs to be done, our resolve will return and we will do it and win.

Project Win Iraq

Situation: Democrats and Republicans alike believed President Bush when he said Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction that threatened our country. We entered Iraq, overthrew its government, and now find ourselves enmired in a mess. Iraq is increasingly dangerous, our costs in money and lives are escalating, and there is no end in sight.

Yet it is still possible for the USA to pull off a major win in Iraq. We are really trying to do something that WE DID BEFORE in Germany and Japan from 1946 to 1952: turn monster nations into honorable, trustworthy, peaceable places. Today, America loves and admires both nations--because they are nonviolent, nonmilitaristic, have outstanding art, interesting cultures, and are among the greatest economic powerhouses in the world. We CAN do the same for Iraq.

Major Target: We need to wake up "the Greatest Generation," not those who merely sacrificed and suffered (humanity has done that for thousands of years), but the forces who Secured the Peace in Germany and Japan from 1945-1952. They did something new, something that deserves remembrance for all time. They are now 80-100 years old. Get them out of their retirement homes for a while to inspire America, our military, and all the world with their reminiscences of how they did it. Then we will do it again in Iraq.

A major part of it is the key difference between a "democracy" (mob rule) and a Republic (rule of Law, with respect for minorities). One thing we did in Germany was invite citizens to town meetings to discuss politics. Germans learned to listen respectfully to other opinions. Iraq is a pesthole for other nations because they torture their own. Iraqis need to learn to respect--deep down--each other, and then they will be civil also to the rest of us.

Winning this major target will inspire all of Dar-Al-Islam, all the world, and provide sharply increased prospects for real Peace for all the world for thousands of years.

What to Do

1. FIND Americans, then Germans and Japanese, born before 1930, who remember the Creation of the Peace after World War II.

2. Get their reminiscences recorded and printed. Get as much variety as possible, and print them in as many different media as possible.

3. Get them paid for chatting with small groups of military (respect their remaining bodily strength).

4: The Departed Greatest Generation: let their children remember. The key is an interesting story.

What America Needs To Do

1. Remember and honor the True Greatest Generation--those who cemented the Peace.

2. Reprint the orders and manuals used by the US Constabulary in Germany and Japan.

3. Tell these stories in Iraq. They should be idealized a bit--but a few of the mistakes must be included too, because we aren't perfect yet. We will blunder in Iraq. We must face that as part of the mission.

4. Make clear to Iraq (and Afghanistan) that New Governments always make a lot of mistakes. The solution is not an even newer government.

5. Get Germany and Japan to remember this time. Get them to send their grandchildren to Iraq and help us there. They owe us.

What Germany and Japan should do.

"He who teaches learns twice" -- Confucius (?)

1. Search this portion of their own histories and find our successes and mistakes.

2. Recruit and train young people to prepare them for Iraq. All must be volunteers--that's what we used, and that was a critical reason we succeeded.

3. Pay for and send their young people to repeat in Iraq the best they learned from the US.

This will be profitable for those nations--they will strengthen the best they got from us, and secure their own futures very strongly.