Americans try to get along – we will negotiate, we will accommodate, we will bend over backwards to try to appease the other side. But we reach a point when we realize that the enemy will never settle for any thing less than total surrender, that they want war.

Then we roll up our shirt sleeves and we get to work, our approach to war is just like an industrial project – to be done as efficiently as we can. Exterminate the most enemy with the least effort is not the goal, it’s the metric.

In 1941 Japan felt America was soft & weak, ripe for the taking – less than 4 years later they saw the folly of their idea when on August 6, 1945 at Hiroshima more than 80,000 people were killed in the blink of an eye, with over 100,000 more doomed to die in less than a year.
Mass killing on an industrial scale, and mercy is nowhere in that equation.
Mercy will be left for the next generation, they will have time for it – we don’t.

We have a Republic to save, that’s the job that must be done. It’s up to us to do it – there is no one else.