Hitler was able to motivate and mobilize the Germans so easily because they felt they had been ripped off at Versailles a generation earlier.
It is satisfying to talk about crushing your enemies and punishing aggressors blah blah blah all that simple minded puffed up chest shit - but the fact is dealing with a country isn't like dealing with a person. You have coming generations that you're going to have to deal with and a war is NEVER over unless you kill all the men and impregnate all their women.
Idiots can sit on barstools, talk about killing Muslims and vote for Bush all they want, but the only way terrorism will be defanged is thru statemanship, diplomacy, an exploration of root causes and a reasonable resolution. Thus it has ever been, thus it ever will be.
Unless we kill them ALL.
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