You know the President has a nasty habit of making awful parallels to what we’re doing in Iraq to other wars, where there’s nothing similar. First, he’s compared it to the American Revolution, which is dishonest, and not to mention not a hopefully story if one is concerned with the length that we’d be there, after all it took us more than ten years to set up our government.

Now, the President is comparing it to Japan. Japan, unlike Iraq, was a homogenous people, already under the rule of an emperor with customs and cultures uniform throughout the country. Additionally, we completely took the entire country, unlike Iraq where borders are still open and our control is shaky at best.

Iraq, has three very different, very opposing cultural groups, is anything but homogenous, and is nothing like Japan. Someone should tell the President.