Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
Not so well for the countries of Eastern Europe, but that is beside the point. Germany and Japan were superpowers on the rampage seeking to establish vast empires of neighbouring territory. Germany certainly was defeated in an existential struggle for survival. No comparison with destroying small, weak, Arab states.
And how might it have worked out better for the countries of Eastern Europe? Why, if we had pushed on through Berlin to Moscow!

The problem with regime change in small, weak Arab states is that whilst we have the military power to change the government, we lack the political will to continue to use that military power to stop said bloody Arabs slaughtering each other.