[gorush]

They OFTEN resorted to cannibalism due their governments penchant for sending vast numbers to islands with no intention of resupplying. This occurred, not far away, on Chichi Jima...where GHW Bush went down.

More were killed by Samuri swords than were killed during two a-bomb attacks. I won't minimize the punishment and suffering we inflicted during the firebombings, but their government and culture combined to create an adversary against whom diplomacy was doomed.

[Retired Greyhound]

Agreed.