[J P Stein]

The US turned it's back on the world back in the 20s & 30s. How did that work out for ya?

Appeasement of radical nation states only leads them to want more. The solution becomes more & more difficult. How does Hitler or Hirohito with the BOMB sound to ya? Believing that they would not have been be crazy enough to use it is the *hope* of fools.

Maybe the US should just turn it's back on the democracies of the world and let Belgium or Norway dictate our foreign policy. Look how well they held up under the Nazi heel.

The article referred to by the OP is correct. There is no silver bullet......but, strategic bombardment would turn the trick with....... an occasional re-arrangement of the rubble. Norway could probably handle that using their own devices, eh?