Tossing one liners at me on this subject is extremely foolish. It is one of my subjects, Chinese history in the twentieth century being of especial interest to me for many years.
It is quite true that fire-bombings and blockade killed great numbers of Japanese, and quite possible the continued lethal pressures of 'air supremacy' ( which in fact meant wholesale bombing, and harrying by fighter-bombers strafing anything that moved ) would have had the desired effect short of invasion, but of course that is one of the things you were asked whether you favored in preference to the use of the first two atomic bombs. You have not answered, merely made an extreme 'left pacifist' posturing, which carries no weight at all. You would be much better served, by the way, to look into the thing from the view of the Japanese, the government structure, and balance of powers, military and civilian, there. It will be much more illuminating, and more useful to understanding, than after the fact comments by U.S. military figures, statements that are in fact bound up with inter-service rivalries in the immediate post-war years, or have little substantiation. The idea of LeMay, for instance, expressing moral qualms about 'killing Japs' hardly rings true to anyone familiar the record of the man during the war, and in the first decades of the Cold War.
So on this sideline, we have the following as a record:
You do not answer what should have been done about Japanese aggression in China, a passage of extraordinary atrocity shocking the conscience of the world.
You do not answer what course you would have found superior to the use of atomic bombs in 1945, and indeed, display abject ignorance of the subject.
On the question of the present day, let us see how you do.
Do you feel Iran should be allowed to develop a nuclear weapons capability?
Do you believe Iran is seeking such capability?
Do you believe economic sanctions are an appropriate measure to discourage Iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability?
If such sanctions are effective, is this a good thing or a bad thing?
If you feel sanctions are not a proper course, what do you consider a proper course?
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