"It's amazing to me that after WW2 we had basically normal, allied relationships with Japan and (West) Germany within ten years. I guess the Cold War helped that by replaced them with Russia and China, but still, tons of Americans are still afraid of a group of a billion people after one attack by an unrepresentative 19." -- ASV, Lawyers, Guns, and Money, comments (thanks to realinterrobang for quoting this earlier