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[António Pedro Marques]

Son of Witz wrote (19-01-2011 17:52):
> That is a fascinating take. I've never heard it expressed that way.
> Admitedly I'm no student of WWII. I had forgotten about the genocidal
> suicide pact. What a motivation that would be to their soldiers to stop
> at nothing! And the idea that this near genocide is then presented as a
> sobering reality.  Ouch and wow!

And James is right that even after Nagasaki the japanese government couldn't 
agree to surrender.

(Not to mention that isolated groups of fighters remained at large into the 
'70s.)

It's cheap for despots to gamble with their subjects' lives. Japan is one of 
many cases in the 20th century.