Sarah Paine

Okay, those are all radically different things, but you need to make up your mind what it's going to be.

I think it's a miracle.

Well, A, okay.

If you're going to have the win be that the United States transforms Japan into a functional democracy,

Or sets them on the road so that they will become them.

If that's what the win is, no.

Because if you don't, I showed you the three horrible events in four days.

That's quite incredible to have that much bad news happening in a half a week.

And that absolutely shattered the Japanese.

And it also opened the door for those who thought they were in crazy land to capitulate.

If you don't do that, okay, we invade the home islands.

Americans were sick of the war.

And you start losing lots of American kids in Japan.

I think at some stage we decide to pull them out of Japan and blockade them eternally.

And then you've got, I don't know, Japan is like a new North Korea, just this inevitable, this eternal non-functioning society.

So no.

Mm-hmm.

These wars are tragic.

And also don't think that you have all the cards that you're going to make the decisions about what's going to happen.

The other side is going to put you into corners where you're going to choose from very unpleasant alternatives.