How to change the collective mind of a jihadist state

Confederate Yankee gets it right tonight on the subject of Hiroshima.

60 Years After the Whirlwind

Three-score years have passed since that fateful morning, and the veil of time allows revisionists, apologists, and activists to portray the Japanese people as innocent victims of a horrible weapons, and indeed, many individuals were innocent. Japan, however, was reaping what it had sown in Nanking, Bataan, and course Pearl Harbor.

While our valued allies today, the military society that dominated Japan sixty years ago was more akin to today's Islamic fundamentalists than most would comfortably admit.

A worthwhile read.