Dear Mr. NoSpam,

If you had been keeping up with the news (specifically the Japanese
newspapers), you would have known that even after the Nagasaki bomb was
dropped, the military wanted to continue the struggle to the death of the
last Japanese, rather than admit defeat. There were a few stories to that
effect in the Japan Times within the past year or so. Those stories might
still be accessible somewhere.

Needless to say, both Eisenhower and MacArthur had been dead before those
revelations had been made, although I remember reading about the role of the
emperor in finally admitting the defeat as early as the 1970s.

It is true that many in Japan were ready to surrender, but that didn't
really matter, since the Japan of that time was under the tight control of a
government run by the military. While there were civilians in the
government, the cabinet could be brought down (and often did) at any time by
the Army or Navy quitting from the cabinet. Throughout that period, thought
police persecuted anyone who dared voice a dissenting opinion.

The net result of all this is that Japan has become very pacifist since the
war, and there is major political turmoil with even the sending of
noncombatants to Iraq, or anywhere for that matter. On television, the
Japanese military of the period are often the heavies, far more than the
American military.

Do you ever bother to study Japanese history or Japanese society? Have you
ever visited here or lived here?


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wrote on 12/18/03 1:03 PM:


Both Eisenhower and MacArthur thought otherwise, but what do they
know? Hell, they were just the generals running the war and commanding
the troops who fought it. Probably a couple of bleeding-heart, pinko,
commie, rat-******* liberals anyway. I'm sure YOU know FAR more about
it than they ever did....

"Japan was already defeated and that dropping the
bomb was completely unnecessary"
Dwight Eisenhower, "Mandate for Change", pg 380

"the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't
necessary to hit them with that awful thing."
Dwight Eisenhower, Newsweek, 11/11/63

"No military justification for the dropping of the bomb".
Douglas MacArthur
Norman Cousins, The Pathology of Power, pg. 65

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