Posted on 04/24/2003 2:55:00 PM PDT by zingzang
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
How can the Americans and British break the remaining grip the Baath Socialist Party has over the Iraqi people? The last time the Allies faced a comparable problem was at the end of the World War II, when the defeat of Germany left them with the task of re-educating a nation defeated on the battlefield but still saturated with Nazi doctrines. Just as Germany was successfully de-Nazified, the challenge today is to "de-Baathify" Iraq.
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