Reply #241: We WERE the guys with the white hats

[Muddleoftheroad]

We didn't do everything perfect, but we halted world dominion by a bunch of mass murdering, torturing, raping, destroying fascists.

That's pretty damn good. And it sure as hell wasn't a cartoon.

"Evidence" that they were still ready to fight. LOL. Were you there? Did you get into the minds of the Japanese military? What does it take to turn a murdering zealot into one who will willingly surrender?

Answer: No one knows.

What we do know is that the actions taken by Truman worked. To remove one of those actions is to invalidate the result. Like a house of cards it could all come tumbling down.

You have bought into the fantasy of Japanese peace. At the end of the war, they still fielded an army, still murdered and raped their way across Asia. The nukes ended that war. If the Japanese had wanted it ended sooner, they had the power to do so.

The institution of emperor is nothing like it used to be, due in large part to the actions of Americans during occupation. Again, more points for Truman.