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<blockquote data-quote="SamuelBRoberts" data-source="post: 1229081" data-attributes="member: 8362">Within the last 24 hours I had a Japanese guy say pretty much the same thing to me over beers at a nice little yakiniku place in Shinbashi, that the nuclear bombings were preferable to having the Japanese slaughtered in a protracted ground conflict before being turned over to the soviets to starve in death camps. This was a guy who's fairly well-known for his extensive knowledge of history, and I'd bet at least one person reading this would recognize his name.&nbsp; (He blew up at me when I didn't remember what the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_note" target="_blank">&quot;Hull Note&quot;</a> was and told me I needed to read more history books, which was a new experience for me considering half my library is books on the pacific war.) Given that it's unlikely that he's a &quot;fucking moron&quot;, would you say that he had some kind of hateful agenda against his own race, then?&nbsp; Would love to hear your analysis.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SamuelBRoberts, post: 1229081, member: 8362"] Within the last 24 hours I had a Japanese guy say pretty much the same thing to me over beers at a nice little yakiniku place in Shinbashi, that the nuclear bombings were preferable to having the Japanese slaughtered in a protracted ground conflict before being turned over to the soviets to starve in death camps. This was a guy who's fairly well-known for his extensive knowledge of history, and I'd bet at least one person reading this would recognize his name. (He blew up at me when I didn't remember what the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_note]"Hull Note"[/url] was and told me I needed to read more history books, which was a new experience for me considering half my library is books on the pacific war.) Given that it's unlikely that he's a "fucking moron", would you say that he had some kind of hateful agenda against his own race, then? Would love to hear your analysis. [/QUOTE]

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