Our only success really is in Japan and that had a whole different environment to it. The citizenry was not fractionalized. When the emperor told them they were surrendering, their culture was one that said to go along and of course the free world had just beaten them, not just the Americans.
Those are good points. But it should not also be forgotten that we obliterated two of their cities with fission bombs, which tends to make a lasting impression on a populace, and may also have been a contributing factor.
look at our history in forcing regime change. WE SUCK AT IT.
There are lots of reasons for this. Maybe just one of them is that we started fighting wars with a top priority that nobody gets hurt. As shown with the example of Japan, we stopped succeeding at regime change when we stopped actually defeating enemies.
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- For decent people there's a difference between invading a country without provovation and pounding the hell out of the citizenry,
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