[TwoBear]

I'm beginning to lean towards the "1945" approach myself. I think this method is the only method Islamists will understand; total and ultimate destruction.

My question is, what has happened to mainstream America that allowed this in 45' but won't in 04'? Have people really become this naive or is it just a baseless opinion that's presented to us by the media that believes it?

IMHO, if Bush wins this election cycle, he should pull out, and make the decision that would now be vilified, but throughout history would be seen as the only solution to a World dominated by terrorists. That solution should be nuclear.

[maica]

My question is, what has happened to mainstream America that allowed this in 45' but won't in 04'?

^^^^

It partly is a question of numbers. In WWII every family had members fighting somewhere in the world. By 1944, fathers of 3 children were being drafted (mine), casualties were in the millions, deaths in the hundreds of thousands.

[MEG33]

No one was consulted in 45,the bomb was secret until it was used.

There were 295,000 US military deaths in WW2(we were lucky).Trust me..the majority of Americans were just happy for the war to end.The great self examination about dropping the bomb came later.

[monday]

"My question is, what has happened to mainstream America that allowed this in 45' but won't in 04'? Have people really become this naive or is it just a baseless opinion that's presented to us by the media that believes it? "

Both. If America were threatened by military conquest as it was during the second world war I am sure Americans would respond as they did then. This is a different kind of threat though.

The Islamofacists cannot win by direct military power although some of them clearly would like to try. The real threat of Islam is the one facing Europe. In a sense, the terrorists are doing their cause a disservice because if the west is provoked into action like Hiroshima, and millions of Muslims are killed, it might set back their eventual conquest of the west by submerging it in a sea of immigrants.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

My question is, what has happened to mainstream America that allowed this in 45' but won't in 04'?

They got a taste of communism/socialism and they loved it.