Originally Posted by Rochard

This is true.

At the close of WWII there was no discussion and no interest by fanatics "continuing the war by other means", both in Japan and Germany. When the war ended, it ended. The reason why was because war was so horrible and there was so much destruction that no one ever even considered continuing the war. They accepted defeat.

This is not what we have now. The "Six Day War" is a great example. Israel took on Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, and others, and quickly embarrassed them. It was brutal, and an obvious defeat, but the losers refuse to accept defeat and over forty years later they call it "the setback".

My point is.... During WWII we had complete destruction, hundreds of entire cities completely destroyed, entire families wiped out (My grandmother was the only one in her family who survived in Poland), mass starvation... EVERYONE was exhausted and completely done with war. Now we can remove a government and destroy an entire army with a lot less casualties, and when it's over.... People are more likely to pick up weapons and go right back to it.

You either have total destruction and a population who admits defeat, or you have what we have now.