[Arthur McGowan]

If you think these men are assholes just because they Attacked America, you need to grow up. They carried out a military operation, directed by their superiors and their government, against a true military target. They commandeered no civilian airplanes with civilian passengers. If you say the Japanese pilots who bombed Pearl Harbor were and are assholes, then you have to say the Americans who bombed Tokyo, Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki were assholes.

[Jaxter]

The low number of civilian deaths show that they were interested in military targets. If the Pearl Harbor vets can forgive tham, then I sure can.

[Cyber Liberty]

I can't speak for meandog (he can do that himself very well), but I don't think they're a-holes because they attacked America. I think they are a-holes because of this line from the article:

Members of the Unabarakai, the association of Pearl Harbor veterans, argue that Japan had no choice but to launch a pre-emptive strike on the US which was applying intolerable pressure, including an embargo that cut off oil supplies to Japan in the summer of 1941.

That's the "official line" that Japanese children today are taught in school in reference to the war. It's a very superficial way of looking at the causes of the war in the Pacific.

[Doctor Freeze]

Good points. They bombed a strategic military target. We returned the favor (Midway, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc.).

No "assholes" that I see.

At least the Japanese Kamikaze were brave enough to just kill themselves in their own plane rather than hijack a civilian airliner!!