You, dennisw, are simply the mirror image of the jihdists. You're no better than they are, and anything you are for, I have to look at with deep suspicion.
So Truman was just a "mirror image" of Tojo and the Japanese Imperial Army, and no better than them?
There is a subtle difference being the aggressor who uses a sneak attack in peacetime, and the defender who retaliates. Perhaps the distinction is too subtle for you.
IOW, both the Nazis and the US Army invaded and ran across France in WW2, but they were not "mirror images".
Try as hard as you can, really put your thinking cap on, and you may grasp this subtle distinction.