After all, history has shown us that post-war Germany also prospered as a social democracy while its past as a right wing autocracy (like Japan's) led only to imperialism, dictatorship, war, and ruin.

Detailed US planning for the administration of the defeated Axis powers was not hastily improvised after the war ended, but was well thought out and initiated early on while hostilities were still raging. The Roosevelt team's enlightened postwar policies proved both more humane and practical than the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe, or the harsh peace imposed by the Allies on Germany after World War I.