America's Total War Card: Yet To Be Played

Interesting article:

In the comments, Jim Bennett suggests that the Islamists are making the same specific miscalculation as the Japanese did: "The Japanese thought that suicide tactics would demoralize the Americans and serve as a demonstration of Japanese resolve. They were right, in a way, but they failed to anticipate what the results of that effect would be." The thugs and autocrats who make war on us often have a poor understanding of the political dynamics of democratic societies in general and of American society in particular. Eventually they tend to overplay their hands.

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