[dfwgator]

BS- America wanted a presence in the pacific to offset the growing communist threat from stalin and the potential of mao so dugout doug, who had been a complete disaster throughout WWII, thought the best way to do it was treat the japs with kid gloves...

Mao didn't gain power until 1949.

[God luvs America]

hence the specific comment in my post on the potential of mao which was well known to the Americans through their dealings with that derelist Chiang Kai-shek...