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Very strained Bremer analogy since Iraq is a distant foreign country with which we have little in common. Some might say that about the south, but I tend to be more optimistic. Factually, military rule in the south gave way soon enough to readmission with respect to most of the states of the former Confederacy. With respect to the bigger picture, the fact that freedmen were denied land (General Sherman's 40 acres and a mule policy was quickly rescinded by then-President Andrew Johnson) probably prevented the development of a Black southern yeomanry that might have led to better results.

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