MIT historian examines path of war in new book

"Japanese psychology," wrote Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan at the outset of World War II, is "fundamentally unlike that of any Western nation." The Japanese mentality `cannot be measured by our own standards of logic," he added. More than 60 years later, Paul Bremer, viceroy in U.S.-occupied Iraq, assessed one of that country's political leaders. "Ayatollah Sistani operated on a different rational plane than we Westerners," Bremer wrote in his memoir.

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