It’s VJ Day today.
Rejoice!
We celebrate not just for the victory, but because of the peace it brought.
In fact, the Allues fought the war for peace. This is the greatest thing we should remember today. They didn’t fight to conquer or destroy. They fought to bring an egregious war to an end.
The suggestion that the way in which the Allies forced the war to a denouement was wrong, is morally perverse. War’s moral purpose was to defeat an aggrandising tyranny, rescue Japan from militarism, free its victims - millions in East Asia - from slavery, and secure a lasting peace.