humanities.philosophy.objectivism

On Apr 4, 7:02 pm, "Robert J. Kolker"
wrote:
> chazwin wrote:
>
> > How easly you swallow propoganda!!
> > Japan was finished. It is widely agreed by historians that Japan would
>
> The militarists intended to fight until the last Jap died.

So why did they not?
Answer they were faced with a Russia takeover and chose and American
one. The bombs were a secondary consideration.
There was a rush to finish. prepare and drop the things as soon as
possible before the war ended.

The rest of your argument is empty: you are contradicting yourself.

>
> There was a near coup to prevent the Emperor from surrendering after the
> second A-bomb was dropped.
>
> Yes. The Japs were defeated militarily. No, many did not want to stop
> because of this. Think of the Black Knight in the Monty Python movie.
>
> The Japs were crazy fanatic bastards. They did not think as you or I would.
>
> They also had four million fresh troops ready to do battle with the
> Allies whose armies were a bit chewed up from the previous fighting in
> the pacific and Europe.  There would have been a million dead, at least.
> Okinowa taught us just how crazy the Jap bastards were.
>
> Bob Kolker