Truman's actions were appropriate and saved not only American lives but Japanese.
However, this war is not of that nature and there is no targets which could be hit and have the same effect.
Using a hammer to kill gnats does not make much sense or work very well.
I hope you are right.
However, if you hear nutmenajob's own words, not the one's filtered by ABCNBCCBSCNN, he is talking about an Apocalypse, and by the way, he just so happens to be building nuclear weapons. His first target will be Israel. Then he will topple moderate states within the region, controlling 3/4 of the world's oil supply.