The Japanese people lived under a dictatorial regime. If you refuse to do as you are told, by the regime, you die. So, if you were a Japanese civilian in 1945, you would support the war effort or be executed. For this they deserve death, in your blood lust mind.Civilians, last I checked the nation of Japan was at war with us, civilians literally making bullets, guns, bombs, to kill us with, actively participating in the War machine. Acting as one united, not as individuals.So, kill every civilian? Is that your position?
But hey, we did not kill every civilian. Not even close, we actually saved at least a million Japanese lives or more.
So your position is thus, that the USA should of surrendered the West Coast of California after Pearl Harbor was bombed.
The belief that the a-bombs saved lives, because they made invasion unnecessary, is bull shit. That theory was trotted out by the Truman administration AFTER the a-bombs and criticism mounted for wantonly murdering civilians. Many members of the US military leadership and administration disapproved of the a-bombing.
You must come to realize Japan had nothing left to fight with, in summer '45. Their people were starving and their nation defenseless. Yet, Truman went ahead an incinerated defenseless women, children, and old men when he dropped the a-bombs. Like most politicians, he was lying fool.
www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/macarthur%20reports/macarthur%20v1%20sup/ch5.htm
The idea that Japan was finished and had nothing left to fight with is a myth. They had well over a million man standing army ready to fight in Japan and a huge surplus of stored weapons and munitions to mount a defense.