Right on. The wars in the Middle East these past few years are small compared with the World Wars. It's not necessary to go to the lengths we went in World War II. Those countries were more powerful than Iraq and Afghanistan and we needed more to defeat them. For crying out loud, it took two atomic bombs before Japan surrendered. The only other option was to take the country town by town, city by city, slaughtering resistance and costing the lives of thousands of Americans. By the time the war was ending, the Japanese were training their women and children to fight against the American army.
There was a History Channel (or Discovery Channel) show a couple years back that showed that the Japanese were not far from completing a nuclear device that they planned on using in the US on a date that turned out to be only weeks after when they got bombed themselves. Even after we used two of the a-bombs, they still didn't want to surrender. After all, it took TWO bombs to somewhat convince them when any reasonable person would have thought one was enough. I've seen the pictures; it would have convinced me.