Truman saved millions on both sides, and administered the necessary object lesson to the Japanese to turn them from a terrorist race with delusions of superiority to a civilized one.
This same object lesson must be delivered to the Islamicists to achieve the same conversion, but America does not appear to be up to the task, this time.
And if the Soviets had come in as “backup” for us in the ‘War for Japan’, they surely, too, would’ve demanded a big piece of the action (a la Germany being partioned). Imagine a Soviet Japan. Indeed, those bombs saved countless lives and that potential political tyranny.