[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“He demanded unconditional surrender from the Japanese and Germans.”

Oops! Except that he let the emperor remain! Unconditional my backside!

I found

The New Dealers' War:

FDR and the War Within World War II
by Thomas Fleming

to be a most interesting account of the FDR Administration. One point he made was that FDR and Churchill had a joint news conference after a meeting, and that was where FDR announced the “unconditional surrender demand on Germany.

After the result of the WWI, demand for unconditional surrender was understandably popular in America. But FDR hadn’t talked about that in his meeting with Churchill, and although he said nothing publicly Churchill was appalled. Knowing that it meant fanatical defense by the Germans. It was the best propaganda weapon the Nazis had internally.

You perhaps would have preferred the Japanese to defend their “divine” emperor to the last man? Doesn’t the fact that before the A-bombs dropped, the military had ordered enough purple heart medals that they lasted most of the way through Vietnam mean anything to you?

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

“You perhaps would have preferred the Japanese to defend their “divine” emperor to the last man? Doesn’t the fact that before the A-bombs dropped, the military had ordered enough purple heart medals that they lasted most of the way through Vietnam mean anything to you?”

You seem to think that I was/am against the dropping of the atomic bombs. That is not my point. If you want to know my opinion on that then here it is as follows: Atomic bombs should have continued to rain down upon Japan until there was nothing left to rain down upon. The administration held it out to the world that it was ‘unconditional surrender’ when it was not. Letting the emperor in power is not ‘unconditional surrender’.