The Japanese were no more rational than the Muslims. The only way to make Muslims rational is to kill enough of the deadenders, like the Taliban, to show whatever is left of them their insanity.
One of my favorite analogies. In fact, the number of Japanese willing to conduct suicide ops against us was significantly more than what al qaeda has been able to muster; even though Japan had a much smaller population base and was in a shorter war. Without belittling the seriousness of the current Islamist threat, we have fought fanatical, fight to the death enemies before and have prevailed. Just as we will this time.