danielpalos
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lousy right wing management. if they truly believed in Capitalism we would be engaging the world with Capitalism not our "gun boat diplomacy".Not surrendering earlier could have been a lesser Good.The threat of a siege should have been sufficient.The holdup was, they had to surrender first.
No, the hold up was we had to stop publicly demanding an unconditional surrender.
Essentially no sane person would ever surrender unconditionally.
Only a blood thirsty lunatic would ever make such a demand.
Everyone surrendering always demands women not be raped, children not be killed, no one to be tortured, etc.
Anyone demanding unconditional surrender should be shot for treason, because we are supposed to be a nation based on the inherent rights of ALL people, not just citizens.
And the siege was to make Japan eager to surrender.
In fact, the main reason Japan surrendered was the mining of the ocean between China and Japan.
We dropped mines from bombers.
Japan was starving, because all the merchant ships attempting to cross had been sunk.
They were desperate to surrender.
The only reason the surrender did not occur is because we refused to acknowledge it, because we wanted to test our atomic bombs that we had spent billions perfecting.
No good came out of using the nukes.
It created the current balance of terror, where civilian populations are held hostage to the military safely in their bunkers and submarines.
It not only is the least civilized of all possibilities, but enshrines terrorism against civilians as the whole strategy.