Currently, the best analogy perhaps to the U.S. occupation is the Japanese invasion of China.
Carrol
What's missing, alas, is a strong force of secular leftists against the Empire:
***** When I see the rise of As-Sadr movement and the Sunni fundamentalist groups I can't but wonder about the prospects for secularism in Iraq. The Iraqi Communist Party could have provided the credible alternative but the idiots of the party have damaged their cause for years--if not decades--to come by accepting to serve as a tool for occupation. Just as Arab communism suffered from subservience to USSR (especially on the partition question), Iraqi communism has deeply hurt the movement.
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