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.
illbay is a meally mouthed liberal who would bake cookies for his friends the terrorists before he would EVER condemn them for their terrorist acts!!
He should look in the mirror to see the face of a collaborator!!
As one person put it...in the war against islamic terror...you are with the USA or you are against her!
We were at war with Japan. We were not at war with Saudi Arabia.
Believe it or not--and I know you will "not"--there are civilized rules of warfare.
And there is terrorism, which dennisw consistently supports.