Quote:When in conflict with an ideology that espouses suicide as commendable one cannot apply his own rational response as the model for his enemy's.


IOW, they don't care about dying so long as they kill you. Just like the Sons of Nippon 2 generations ago. We must learn from the past so we aren't forced to repeat it.


Or we can just, you know, not believe them when they say "DEATH TO THE GREAT SATAN AND THE LITTLE SATAN!!!!!!" while killing our troops and allies AND give them the means to create WMD to use against us.


I know what you prefer, I just can't figure out why.

 

One of the main things I learned in the history classes I took back in the day was that american propaganda always creates an irrational in-humane enemy that is hell bent on killng us and has no fear.  See: Native Americans, Germans, Japanese, Communists, Radical Islam, and now Iran...  

 

Usually, this propaganda does not filter into the actual policy makers...  IE why MAD was something we didn't really hear about until after we began negotiating with the Soviets...

 

What was it that Breshnev (sp?) used to say about the US?  Something about crushing us or something?  I forget the exact quote, but rest assured, the Soviets used to talk a pretty tough game too.  We somehow we avoided all that, but I do remember a little move called "The Day After" that kept us in fear even into the early 80s...  But, please, feel free to continue to freak out.

 

I personally won't untill there's a reason...

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