" Unless you can cite me some evidence of thousands of American GIs dying in guerrilla movements in either of those countries after their regimes fell."
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well ignorance is no excuse..there was fighting in Germany for well over a year after the end of the war..go look it up, we were killing Japanese who would not surrender for months after the end in the pacific. I will not teach you history, go get it yourself.
Bravo Sierra on both counts. Cite me the evidence of a broad-based insurgency in either country that had the support of at least 20% of the population.