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Originally Posted by Mutt
I don't consider America's handling of post WWII Japan and Germany as nation building, they were powerful, educated, advanced countries who had a history of democracy, the US helped them to rebuild infrastructure and reform their society to some form of democracy. That success sent a wrong message to American politicians, that nation building could succeed in any country.
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I would call it nation building really. In both Germany and Japan there was very little infrastructure, and all of the functions of the government was taken over by the United States in Japan and the Allies in Germany. In Germany a new government was created.
The success in Germany and Japan did send the wrong message to American politicians. They think "no problem, we'll defeat their military, remove their government, and set up a new government". And they think everyone will accept this. This is not always the case.