V/E Day only occurred due to Hirohito breaking a tie and surrendering.
Those were fanatics who believed the Emperor was God.
These fanatics believe that by killing the infidels they get 72 virgins. By being police men in Afghanistan, I don't see that we will be changing minds.
Didn't work out for the early missionaries when the US West was settled. They were chopped up and their remains were thrown around in celebration. It took wiping out their villages before the killing of missionaries stopped.
People have no conception of war. You either fight to ‘WIN’ or you don’t. It’s that simple. We are not fighting to WIN, we are fighting to save the local’s assess - and I have a major problem with that. Many people have been brainwashed by Bush and Co. that we are fighting “terrorism”, well that’s a bunch of B.S. to sell a bill of goods. If that’s the case, then WHY THE HELL aren’t we fighting in Iran? in Cuba? (90 miles away). Those bastards have been promoting and giving arms to terrorists for the past 30 years. Bring our best and finest home. Put them on the southern border to actually do some good.