He realized that prolonged Japanese occupation of Malaya, Burma, Indonesia, and Indochina had unleashed nationalistic aspirations that exhausted European empires would not be able to suppress.
The illegality of settlements is clearly defined in the 4th Geneva Convention, made into humanitarian law after the relatively prolonged Nazi occupation of France.
Ssangyong threatened to seek liquidation if the workers prolong the occupation.
At the Kufa mosque, packed with so many thousands of worshipers that some could not kneel in prayer, Moktada al-Sadr accused the United States of creating instability in order to prolong its occupation.
William Ewart Gladstone's liberal government was reluctant, however, to prolong the occupation or to establish formal political control, which it feared would antagonize both the sultan and the other European powers.
The next day, in an e-mail memorandum to his staff, Mr. Ringgold discussed other ways to press Iraqi and American officials, including generating news media coverage to suggest that Iraq's "failure to ready its Army" was prolonging the occupation.
As a result the local Greeks asked the French authorities to prolong their occupation until the end of World War I.
But by taking the political path of least resistance -- by condemning the Iraq war as unwinnable instead of inherently wrong -- more restrained foes of the war helped to prolong the occupation that has inflicted and catalyzed so much carnage.
Israeli politicians know it and they exploit it to their advantage, to prolong the occupation and keep Israel-Palestine an apartheid state that privileges Jews and subjugates non-Jews.
Not only is remaining in Afghanistan not a precondition for keeping America safe, but prolonging our occupation is likely to tarnish America's reputation, undermine its security, and erode its economic well-being more than would a cost-effective policy limited to targeting al Qaeda.
