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As is the case throughout history, the source material will say exactly what is convenient for those in power or seeking power. Regardless, it is too early to say whether efforts to establish democracy in Iraq/Afghanistan have failed. Certainly, they now both technically running democratic governments with constitutions. Historically, it's a nonsense to credit German democracy the United States, and simplistic in the case of Japan. Japan's grassroot Taisho democracy, like in the case of Germany, was swept up by a fascist and militaristic national upswing. At the end of these wars, these apparatuses were dismantled and destroyed. The foundation stones were already laid, long before WW2, or even WW1. America's effect on these countries was more economic than political. As to the troubles in the Middle-East, the problems run all the way back to the first half of the 20th Century, first to the British, and then the US and USSR in the Cold War. Strings of puppet leaders and proxy wars has led to a gigantic radicalisation in Islamic culture as a reaction to "Western" interventionism. It's been so long since these countries have had an undisrupted central government, that it's no wonder they have subdivided into almost small fiefdoms delineated by culture or religion.
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