Here you fall into sheer rhetoric, and I think you realize what you are doing. Umpteen-squinchy UN resolutions do not add up to one plan, and I insist that American actions on the ground show that they had no idea what they meant to do with a nation that was anyway going to be infinitely more difficult to administer than Germany or Japan. Nor does the precedent of Germany and Japan, whether or not it proves any ability on the part of those who took part in it, prove much of anything - it was sixty years ago. Its protagonists, you may have noticed, are all dead.