Just to pile on a little bit more about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even if the US did not invade the Home Islands (which I think is probably the way it would have happened) continuing the blockade would still have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands anyway, not to mention the fates of Allied prisoners in the hands of the Japanese. What Sharon suggests is so completely disproportionate to the scale of the war to date. Besides, it’s just this type of overreaction (see administration, Bush, George W.) that would give the terrorists everything they could want and more. You think the guys firing rockets at Israel give two shits about what happens to their brothers?