Back in the days when it is was permissible to voice your opinion, one of the ‘good lines’ was
“IF IT WEREN’T FOR PEARL HARBOR, HIROSHIMA PROBABLY WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED”.
The gist of that statement isn’t meant to be ‘in retaliation’ but
YOU started something and WE finished it.
And if we hadn't cut off Japan's oil and rubber Pearl Harbor wouldn't have happened.
We can take this game back dozens of steps...
(Japan looked at Pearl Harbor the way we looked at surgical strikes a few administrations ago, and drone strikes today, a targeted, measured response, only aimed at combatants, and minimizing civilian casualties)