Islam at its finest

[Illuminatus Primus]

This is one thing I was very afraid of. We'd liberate the Iraqis from Saddam just so they could start a bigoted theocratic government, and we'd sit back and let it happen because religion is a sacred cow over here.

We forcibly dismantled the Japanese Emperor-worship and other fanaticisms.

Japan was already a highly industrialized, well-educated society. Their fanaticism was as much nationalistic as religious; if Saburo Sakai is to be believed, most of the rank and file with who he came into contact didn't take the religious aspect that seriously. I find it highly dubious to assume any kind of equivalency between WW2 Japan and Iraq.

I don't follow that fallacy. I do not think WW2 Japan and Iraq are the same. My point was--just as it was neccessary to forcibly tear down anti-U.S. sentiments and rebuild in Japan ASAP, same is true for Iraq.

[Sea Skimmer]

As for the suicide attacks, they were willing to use them because they were desperate, not because they thought they would be entitled to 72 naked virgins. Do not confuse a similar outcome with a similar cause.

Actually it was drilled into Japanese soldiers that they would live forever in the warriors heaven if they gave their life for the Emperor. The Navy was less affected by this, but even when they where winning Japanese army troops simply acted with little or no regard for there own lives as they sought an honorable death.

This was quite similar to the Islamic desire to be a maytar.