I was responding to: > It's worth remembering that if it weren't for them doing what they did, you might not have the life you do now. My response was not wro

I was responding to: > It's worth remembering that if it weren't for them doing what they did, you might not have the life you do now. My response was not wrong as to that. The Allies did care a great deal about the Japanese people, and you can see that in the Potsdam declaration, but they also cared about their own soldiers' lives. If we hadn't had, or did not want to use, the nukes, then maybe we might have tried blockading for a while, who knows -- it's what the then leadership surely would have considered, and you can't blame someone today for mentioning it.