“actually has led to a situation where it is more difficult to get people to come together, not less. In Germany and Japan [after the Second World War], the population was exhausted and deeply shocked by what had happened, but in Iraq it’s been the opposite. A very rapid victory over enemy forces has meant we’ve not had the cowed population we had in Japan and Germany … . The US is dealing with an Iraqi population that is un-shocked and un-awed.”32
