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Germany and Japan are interesting examples:
A large part of their success lay in the fact that we continued to occupy them to help guide their fledgling democracies and contributed to building their political institutions. We basically baby sat them until they were able to stand on their own. Plus, I believe they had less difficulty with insurgencies.
I believe Iraq would be better off and would have had an easier time if we had 500,000 peace keepers and administrators helping them along instead of this half-assed effort.
The main difference is that at least Japan and Germany (in general) had stability whereas Iraq is still kind of chaotic.
Maybe a Marshall Plan for Iraq (and Afghanistan while we're at it)?
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