[thecavemaster]

The role of the President is to protect American lives. Truman did his job. The United States did a great job of rebuilding Japan. Japan was the country with a military industrial complex.

I guess you need to file a complaint with Transylvania University if you do not agree with how they are teaching the history of Japan and their role in World War II.

So I will ask my question again, (2nd attempt) would you allow Iran to attain nuclear weapons and hope that all the rhetoric they spew about attacking other countries in the Middle East is just that, rhetoric? Has history not taught you anything about aggressive regimes?

A nuclear bomb was dropped on a civilian population. If you are ok with that, that's your moral compass, not mine. The less nuclear weapons on the planet, the better. History taught me who dropped a nuclear weapon, who fire bombed Dresden, which isn't to say America is bad, but is to say governments are flesh and bones, good and bad, and none can be "trusted" with weapons of mass destruction. Read a Japanese history book for some perspective.