[fabsroman]

Yamamoto was much more honorable than Al Zerquaoui, period. Now, the Japanese themselves were a terrible bunch, but I do not think Yamamoto was. Granted, he performed a sneek attack on Pearl Harbor, but that is warfare. I think George Washington did the same thing against the British. In warfare, you do not warn the enemy that you will be attacking. However, in warfare you also do not target citizens.

As far as World War II is concerned, there was a lot of terrible things done. Let's try to remember that history is generally written by the victors. With that in mind, how about the US/British fire bombing of German cities towards the end of the war. I believe we fire bombed Dresden and there was no great need to do so. We destroyed irreplaceable art and killed countless civilians. For those of you that do not know how fire bombing worked, it required extreme heat/fire, usually created with napam and/or by targeting buildings that would catch on fire. As we know, fire consumes oxygen, and with a huge city to consume, the fire needed a ton of oxygen. The oxygen would be sucked in from the outlying areas and channeled through the buildings. The winds would be incredible. There are stories about babies being sucked out of mothers' arms and sucked right into the fires. How about the dropping of TWO atomic bombs and the countless citizens that were killed in those bombings? Would one have worked just as well? Probably. Heck, we could have dropped the bomb on a small, barely inhabited island off of Japan's mainland and that probably would have ended the war too. Then again, it is easy to be a Monday morning quarterback 60 years after the fact.

During our fight against the British, we mainly used gorilla warfare. We did not engage the British through normal protocal of war for those days (i.e., we did not line up on opposite sides of a field and continue firing until nobody was left standing on one side). Essentially, we ambushed the British along their marches.

Do I really fault the muslims for their tactics. Not really, with the exception of their use of hostages and the targeting of civilians as the main target. We all know there is collateral damage in all wars. Heck, there were some reports of women and a child being killed in the bombing of Zerquaoui. Do I think it was a bad thing to do. NO. That is just how it goes in war. Now, the cutting off of civilian heads is a completely different thing.

I have no issue with their use of road side bombs or suicide bombers against our military. Yeah, it sucks that our guys die that way, but that is how war is. The Japanese used suicide bombers too, but we quickly learned how to deal with them too. Hopefully, we will learn how to deal with these road side bombs and suicide bombers in the near future.

To sum it up, I do not think that Yamamoto can even be compared to Zerquaoui. Sure, he killed US service men in an act of war, but the US got caught with its pants down in Pearl Harbor. We were arrogant. Same thing happened on 9/11. It took World War II and a lot of mens lives to rectify our arrogance, and now it is taking the Iragi war to rectify our latest bout of arrogance, which has resulted in no terrorist attacks against the US other than in the Middle East. Hopefully, nothing will happen with Iran.

This whole thing sucks, but I am glad that we killed this guy. I will pop a bottle of champagne if we ever get Osama Bin Laden or his right handed man that wears the turban and glasses. That would be great.