Oh, BTW, I forgot to mention that I may not be unbiased. I grew up listening to stories from my great-uncles telling about how they watched kamikazi planes slam into their ships, watching other ships burn (yes, metal does burn if it gets hot enough) while the crewmen from those ships either burned alive or chose to drown.
Were they happy to get revenge? Not really, although the left-wingers today are happy enough to ascribe all the horrors of war to those US soldiers. They just wanted the war to be OVER.
Social structures generally do not change in any radical manner unless catastrophe occurs to change a large majority of world views. So yes. Sometimes violence does work.
Remember, blame the bad guys (emperor Hirohito's henchmen), not the people trying to end it.
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