haha: Anyone who really studies history knows that there is no "light".
Do you REALLY think, in a nation that had never before heard the voice of their emperor, people would have believed it if the surrender had come during an active invasion? After THEY had been broadcasting propaganda and misinformation of that sort for years?
Do you really think that Stalin wouldn't have killed more people than Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Do you really think that anything short of an atomic bomb would have stopped the invasion? Hiroshima didn't just end a war with Japan. We were poised for war on two continents with the USSR. Our own generals were advising to push straight on through Germany, balanced by Soviet advisers who wanted to do the same thing.
Can you imagine the death toll?
I don't "refuse to see the light", I just differ on the existance of the light. Do I think killing hundreds of thousands of people is a 'moral' thing to do? No. Do I think that war is a horrible thing, and that imposing Liberal 'morality' on it is unrealistic? Absolutely.
Do we see Bahu here on the anniversary of German or Japanese atrocities? I wonder why? One wonders if Bahu has even bothered to look into Japanese crimes against humanity, or if he can even imagine what Japan would have had in store had Stalin invaded.
That isn't the point, though, is it?