[JoeMac]

And niether am I engaging in’’ sophistry’’. We could argue this from know till Doomsday and come up with a dozen different histories.

[B-Chan]

Yes, and we could likewise argue that the Japanese had good reason to attack Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1945.

Aggression is aggression. Spinning the facts of history so that own own country's acts of aggression are justified is sophistry. "All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits." Prov. 16:2.