Good post Hank!
I had an older brother go through the Philippines campaign. The only war story I ever heard him tell was about his company taking all night to fight their way to the top of a hill. When they got near the top the Japanese pulled a Banzai attack. He said they, the Americans, made it to the bottom of the hill in minutes. The Japanese would die for their Emperor as quick as a radical Islamist will die for allah.
Use of the A-bomb induced the Japanese Emperor to surrender. Otherwise, who knows, we might still be fighting the Japanese. President Bush said the war against Radical Islam would be a long war, perhaps far longer than Americans realize.
The American Al-Qaeda JV's will probably pick us off lone-wolf style one-by-one.
You know,the American traitors who fought with them learned how to behead people and then came back (or so we are told).
However once the JV's can get their armaments (Via Vladimir?) to our shores then we will have a real fight on our hands.
HankD