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I think I was just saying below read what you wrote - the Japanese must have
been willing to surrender after two atomic bombs and the firebombing of
Tokyo, because they did surrender.  I am not making that up - ?

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From: <GAmoore@...>
To: <logic-ot@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 9:00 AM
Subject: [L-OT] Japan blockage


> The History channel just ran an hour show about Hirohito last week - he
> had been largely a figurehead - not unlike the Queen of England. Tojo and
> other military shoguns were running the country. AFTER the second atomic
> blast at Nagasaki, they still wanted to fight to the last man (or woman
> or child). It was only at that point that Hirohito stepped and actually
> took charge and said enough is enough.
>
> Look at Okinawa - roughly 6,000 Americans died, 30,000 Japanese soldiers,
> and 150,000 Japanese civilians - mostly by suicide or at the hands of
> Japanese army doing them a favor. THe Japanese people knew an invasion
> was imminent. Did anyone protest the war, or resist the training to fight
> spears against guns? Most of them would have died without complaint.
>
> When you have people with that level of devotion, do you really think
> they will surrender simply because they've had some set backs in the war?
>
> Look at North Korea now. They have supposedly had millions die of
> starvation, and yet they keep developing missiles and offensive weapons.
> In the last week they finally started talking peace - after 51 years of
> hostility.
>
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> >> If they weren't willing to surrender even AFTER two atomic bomb attacks
> >> an the firebombing of Tokyo, do you really think they would just
> >> surrender on their own?
> >>
> >
> >Um, they were willing to surrender after two atomic bombs and the
> >firebombing of Tokyo - because they did - ???????  Of course you may be
> >right that they were unwilling to surrender after one atomic bomb and the
> >firebombing of Tokyo.  We will never know.
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