Reply #250: Again, Sir, Utter Nonesense

[The Magistrate]

You would seem to one of those people caught up in the fallacy moral gymnastics cnstitute the point of life....

My point on the use of the atomic bombs is that nothing prior to their use had convinced the military leadership of Japan they were out of military options for gaining some result they could view as success in the Greater East Asian War, nor had anything prior to their use convinced the Emperor to order his military leadership to acquiesce in surrender as the Imperial Will. Imperial Japan's government was so constituted at the time that the military leadership held an absolute veto over policy, absent direct, personal intervention by the Emperor.

My point in insisting on turning an open eye towards the atrocities of Imperial Japan, crimes of colossal size and scope, extending over many years, is that they deserve recognition, and that the use of the atomic weapons in an effort to bring them finally to an end has been used to turn eyes away from these crimes, and pressed into service as form of alibi for these crimes, which is wrong.