[Centurion2000]

For a refreshing source of optimism, we should all do some research and see what Admiral Yamamoto had to say about the United States when he and his superiors in the Japanese government were discussing the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Japan pissed off the US ---> Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Islamics piss us off (one can hope for) ----> same results on Mecca / Medina

[Alberta's Child]

It wasn't so much that Japan pissed off the U.S. What was truly amazing was that Yamamoto knew America better than most Americans even knew themselves.

His warning to his superiors was that the United States was a very strange country. The people were very amiable and kind of dull-witted for the most part, and Japan would probably be able to score a decisive victory over the U.S. in any naval engagements in the Pacific over the short term.

"But when awakened from its slumber," he said (and I'm paraphrasing), "the United States will unleash a hellish fury on us that will make us rue the day we were ever born."

[philosofy123]

How are you able to read my mind!!!!