ironglow, I completely agree with you on that point. We should not have gone, but we are there now, and we need to wrap things up, and get out, and stop doing these police actions that never really accomplish anything. When we are gone from Iraq, their government will once again slump into a theocracy driven dictatorship, and the next leader will be just as bloody as the last one, for the simple reason, that brutal force is the only thing a Muslim truly understands.
I don't believe the Japanese can be compared with he Muslim however.