When you state "a new government just like Germany and Japan got" you are forgetting that once we had Hirohito step away from claims of the divine, we, in turn, left him, and the related Shinto culture in place, repected the cultural aspects and instead of destroying the culture, overlaid it with an additional layer.
Your call for a crusade to stamp out Islam at gun point, is beyond impractical, it is down-right counterproductive to having a succesful win against terroristic jihaidist elements in the world. Such action, policy advancement or the like is the one and only one thing that would turn all of the Islamic world to jihad.
You said -- "Your call for a crusade to stamp out Islam at gun point, is beyond impractical, it is down-right counterproductive to having a succesful win against terroristic jihaidist elements in the world. Such action, policy advancement or the like is the one and only one thing that would turn all of the Islamic world to jihad."
In case you haven't noticed, the whole Islamic world has turned to jihad. There are those who support it by going out to fight, those who give money, those who teach, those who recruit, those who give quiet support and say nothing, but privately agree, and those who protest on the streets and say, Islam is going to take over the world. There's not too much more that you can do to involve the entire Islamic world than what is already happening.
All you're doing by supporting the present "WOT" is picking on the wrong enemy -- and insuring that we're going to be fighting a 100-years-war, instead of a five, ten or fifteen year war.
I'll absolute guarantee you *without a doubt* that you could turn the entire country of Iraq into a 1776 revolution with their own George Washington and a Bill of Rights better than we got -- and you would still have Islamic terrorism around the world and terrorists trying to set off their next major 9/11 on this country. Iraq is not the answer; it is only the symptom.
Regards,
Star Traveler