[annalex]

I disagree with Peikoff on one thing: I believe that the moderate Muslims are our potential allies and therefore an effort should be made to distinguish between the militants and the passives. For example, I believe that the humanitarian food drops were a good idea.

I also think that after the hostilities stop, we will have to install some occupational force there and oversee a transition toward a peaceful and representative government in every country involved. Although the concrete details will be different, the West will have to re-learn how to be a colonial empire. All this was discussed at some length in the previous article: The Contours of Victory.

[Common Tator]

Japan in 1941 had a living GOD named Hirohito. The Japanese people were not allowed to look on the living god that ruled them. Those under him told teh people that if they gave thier life in his service they had an instant ticket to heaven. Thus the kamikazi were pilots that flew a bomb with wings and an engine into the side of our ships. They got instant death and thought they were getting instant heaven.

We defeated Japan and rules the nation under military law fow only a few years. General McArthur ruled Japan with an iron had. He in effect dictated their constitution.

Hirohito was made to plege aliegence to General McArthur. The people were forced to look at him bowing down to McArthur. We took a waring nation and made it a peaceful nation in a few short years. The effects have lasted 50 years.

It took us just 3 years to change Japanese society after the war. We can do it again.