Reply #170: "the war was already over." This is a lie.

[Sterling]

What was still yet to come was the invasion of the home islands of Japan which would have cost up to another million US lives an untold Japanese. The war was no where near "over" as far as the Japanese military was concerned.

My great uncle fought in the pacific. During the occupation of Japan he was given the task of hanging Japanese war criminals. I believe in his later years he felt sorrow for having to do that job. He grew to love the people of Japan while living there. At no point however did he kid himself into thinking that the government of Japan during the war was not dangerous and had to be fought with everything we had.

I think the US did what we had to do during WW2. If there ever was a clearer example of a struggle against "evil" than ww2? We may as well lament on Sherman's march to the sea. War is hell. It should always be avoided and when absolutely necessary should be fought whole heartedly and ended as soon as possible. Bombing Japan was a terrible necessity of that terrible war. Thank god we won and not Japan. The world is a much better place as a result of the sacrifice of the allied soldiers.