Got this from thoolou's blog and I thought it was interesting. Can one really draw a parallel between European reconstruction after World War II and the rebuilding or Iraq? It's something worth considering.

Americans are Losing the Victory in Europe

Wednesday 08.10.05 [11:57 am]

Ran across this today. Found it very interesting. I really don't know what to make of this. I guess things never change and that there is nothing new in the world. Below are two links to two articles from the January 7, 1946 issue of Life magazine. Maybe the author of the main article, John Dos Passos, was the Robert Fisk of his day. Maybe Henry Luce had it in for Harry Truman. This is a discussion for more knowledgeable people than me. But what I really wasn't ready for in an article in Life Magazine six months after the end of World War II was a line such as this: "We have swept away Hitlerism, but a great many Europeans feel that the cure has been worse than the disease." There are more like it. And it is all so eerily familiar. As Dr. Reynolds says, "Read the whole thing." [link]

posted by: thoolou