Ignoramus28897 wrote:
On 2009-02-04, Gunner Asch wrote:
But keep in mind that the horrors of war have to be...horrible. Else
they devolve to the levels of rugby scrums which never really solve
anything. Resentment, fermenting underneith and ready to break out at
any time, is somehow preferable to the knowledge of absolute defeat and
a horror of being a bad nation again and what comes of it?

There is some reason here.

Why do you think McCarther would only accept the unconditional surrender
of the Empire of Japan?

Was it really unconditional?

I do not think so.


It was unconditional in that the Japanese had to agree to whatever we
wanted. And they did.