fortinbras wrote:
It took two large detonations to break the will of the Shinto's in Japan.

That may have had more to do with Russia then the Japanese. See the quotes here from various U.S. Generals at the time. If it wasn't nessecary to win in the Pacific, then it could only have been a threat to Russia.

I'm not ready to accept the idea that genocide is the only solution to Islamic fundamentalism. They don't seem enough of a threat to warrant that sort of response. I'm not at all worried that they're going to start taking over Western countries. They aren't the Soviet Union. They murder innocent people, sometimes my countrymen, but mostly other muslims, and you're talking about doing the same. They push my government to undermine my civil liberties, and that pisses me off, but not enough to kill hundreds of thousands of people over it. An airport search is highly annoying, but I wouldn't kill three innocent people to get rid of it. There are other ways.

Maybe I don't yet have the conviction needed to face the reality of the problem. I'm not convinced that this situation won't, in the final analysis, require what you advocate, but I don't think most people are there yet. I would prefer a reformation within Islam that rejects its radicalism. A great moderate Islamic leader... The arguements are easy. The right person need only decide to make them. One way or the other, fundamentalism is the past, and not the future.

RE: Why we are loosing the War on Terror...