Germans and Japanese were honorable men.
Moslems are not.
Germans and Japanese were honorable men. Moslems are not.
Hopefully Israel’s response to October 7, will be so ferocious that Hamas will be forced sue for surrender. The Germans didn’t surrender until virtually all of Germany was a wreck, even after flattening Tokyo, the Japanese still thought they could hold out after two atomic bomb attacks. I believe we only had one more bomb available for a third city.
I’m sure the Israelis will be kinder conquerors of Gaza than say the Russians were towards the part of Germany they controlled.
True that. But of all the Muslim countries, Turkey (the Ottoman Empire) is the only one I can't think of in history that we took the fight to the Muslims' land and beat them both with war and with a message they their only hope of survival is to surrender and never attack us. Germany and Japan are what they are today because they were on the receiving end of that kind of lesson. Turkey seems to still remember learning that lesson from WW1. It looks to me like Iran needs to learn it.
On a related note: we failed to teach that lesson to Afghanistan and Pakistan (the main hotbeds of Al Qaeda IMHO) after 9/11. Even with what we did in Afghanistan, we could send the message: "Hey, how did killing 3 thousand Americans turn out for y'all losing 70 thousand?" But we don't even say that. Our nation's state departments talk only like we failed to "win over hearts and minds" in Bush fashion.