As a virtuous liberal, I think we should not have dropped those two bombs. We should have spared the Japanese from the horrors of the usage of nuclear weapons and instead subjected them to the pleasures of an invasion. Yes, perhaps 20,000,000 of them would have died, not to mention the million or so casualties the Allies would have suffered. And the complete and total devastation of the Japanese homeland. But hey, things happen. And then we could all feel virtuous about how we held back from dropping those two awful weapons.
Odds are, without the bombs, at least half of Japan would have been occupied by the Soviets, and a Korea-like Civil War would have been inevitable, and we would have been involved in it.