There are a lot of people who look at this battle as something more than an execution, and i don't think i'm one of them. The united states outnumbers the japanese in warships, four or five to one. And if they lengthen the war, maybe get better peace terms. So anybody that is giving their life in this contest is doing this in order to keep the imper system in the emperor rightthe imperial polity because that's the sticking point.