If the Japanese leadership could exact a great enough toll on the American forces by sacrificing the lives of their na ve youths, perhaps these selfish zealots could force America into a Conditional surrender with the main condition being the avoidance of war crimes trials and hangings for themselves. In the typical schema of corrupt governments, the leadership did the deceitful talking from the comfort of their hot geisha house baths while the followers did the dying from a belief that their sacrifice secured the national good. Although a moot point, it would be of historical and future benefit to learn if these same youthful Kamikaze pilots would be so willing to die if they knew the real reason for their sacrifice was to secure another round of hot sake and even hotter sex for Tojo and, at best, was a negative contribution to Japanese national interests. But, in America, it should be a deplorable trait and never tolerated. Unlike a dictatorship, America's government belongs to its people.
American leaders are people who ask for the privilege of being elected.
Once elected, these leaders represent the people by proxy as the leadership in a government whose only power is derived from its people and on revocable loan. Consequently, when an American politician exercises political power it should be exercised only to the best advantage of all the people and not to the distinct advantage of either a small, yet powerful, interest group or a large, yet tyrannical, majority. For governmental purposes, the people are the principles and rights documented in the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution is the glue that holds the United States together. Without it, all that would be left is a landmass with abundant resources and divergent human interests.