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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (136369)	4/10/2010 7:22:03 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542946

en.wikipedia.org "While publicly stating their intent to fight on to the bitter end, Japan's leaders at the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War (the "Big Six") were privately making entreaties to the Soviet Union to mediate peace on terms favorable to the Japanese. The Soviets, meanwhile, were preparing to attack the Japanese, in fulfillment of their promise to the Americans and the British made at the Yalta Conference." Had we worked more closely with the Soviets and been more generous regarding terms we could, perhaps, have avoided slaughtering thousands of civilians and being the only country to ever use a nuclear weapon. On balance, I think it would have been worth a try- but I'm not much for killing civilians- even if the other side was bad, or worse, or whatever.