[Ryzorian]

They may have surrendered before being Invaded proper, yet they did so because they could see the hand writeing on the wall. Japan did what the American general in Bataan did when he surrended 76,000 American troops. Good thing the US didn't institute a "Death March" when Japan surrendered it's nation.

Tenchu; Those people who hide in schools won't stop if you don't bomb that school, they'll just come over and bomb your school after you leave. These guys want everyone to convert to thier crazy version of islam or die. There is no negotiateing with them and I'm not willing to convert or die, wich doesn't leave many options. Lableing someone evil because they are willing to protect thier family by any means available is disingenious.

Also, those "History" teachers that teach history in the US are elitists liberals who hate the US almost as much as other nations do. I have had to discuss things with them several times, they have little idea what the US really stands for and I have little time trying to educate them. Those nukes were justified from our perspective, they saved American lives, wich was our primary goal. We also wanted to demonstrate to Russia that we had "it" and they didn't, wich was a secondary goal.

Also, the south wasn't a "backwater full of uneducated racists" that's more elitist BS. Still, it does proove my point that winners write the history books and looser's become the backwater uneducated racists in those histroy books.
Yes, the South was pretty much ruined like Japan was. Several southern cities were bombed out shells. ( yes, the north shelled cities) Reconstruction was a 30 year nightmare afterward, where the North "re educated" the south.