[carton253]

Oh really?

I'm not demeaning the American or Israeli military. They are the two finest on the planet.

But the difference between the Japanese/Nazis and the Arabs is that the Nazis/Japanese understood what defeat was Once defeated, they were willing to lay down the fight and live in peace. Your scenario suggest that once defeated, the Arabs would lay down the fight and live in peace.

Their history suggests the exact opposite.

[thoughtomator]

What history suggests is that merely losing a war does not suffice for the level of defeat necessary. The Japanese were not just defeated, they were defeated completely, totally at the mercy of their enemies - the Germans, likewise.

The Islamikazis have not seen that level of defeat since the days of Stalin, and as such do not believe that they were defeated, merely set back a step.

What needs be done is to totally crush any regime that supports terror. Retaliation for terror attacks should be wildly disproportionate. For example, if another bombing attack occurs in Jerusalem, erase Ramallah from the map, Arafat included. Another major attack like the Passover attack last year, exterminate every resident of Gaza City.

Sooner or later they'll either wise up, or we'll have killed them all off... either way, problem solved.

[Elsie]

Their history suggests the exact opposite.

Scripture states it exactly:

NIV Genesis 16:7-12
 7.  The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.
 8.  And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?"   "I'm running away from my mistress Sarai," she answered.
 9.  Then the angel of the LORD told her, "Go back to your mistress and submit to her."
 10.  The angel added, "I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count."
 11.  The angel of the LORD also said to her: "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your misery.
 12.  He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward  all his brothers."