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I find it shocking to see how many people believe with perfect hindsight that the U.S. was wrong to deploy atomic weapons against the empire of Japan.

The decision was made in the context of a brutal war of aggression waged by samurai warriors equipped with western arms. They neither gave nor expected quarter during their decade long murder spree throughout the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The military junta went against Yamamoto's advice not to provoke the U.S. and they reaped the whirlwind.

Attack the U.S. directly in a war that threatens U.S. survival and you will end up like the Confederate States of America, Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan....smokin' friggin' ruins. The righteous might of free men bestirred is a power to behold.

That said, there is no more magnanimous victor than the United States and any country rehabilitated by U.S. force of arms is sure to benefit in the long run.