>>>>Well Perry I am certainly no military expert and I would be interested in responses from people like Daniel and Tracy. It just seems to me that you can't bomb an entire country / culture out of existence. Hence you only end up with more resentment, more anger, and more hatred
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>>>You can militarily defeat a nation amd if it is backed up with nation-building... things can work out. See Japan and Germany. The US nuked Japan and the US and Japan have a pretty cozy relationship now.
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>>Have you got a modern times example of an AGGRESSOR nation winning a war and then having a cozy relationship with the people vanquished?
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>It is kind of interesting that you pose your question in a way that it is unanswerable since agressor nations would be less disposed to nation building.

Really? Why did you remove my next line then, which suggested that Palestine was one example and it doesn't seem to be going as you say?

The question I posed is answerable, but at the expense of your statement (which I challenged by the question).

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>It's akin to asking me to name a mammal that doesn't suckle its young.

There's no similarity at all. None. Zilch. Nada. NIL.