They have been justified because they HAPPENED! Time has justified them.
There are no do overs with nuclear bombs.
Justified or not, the point is moot.
THEY attacked US. They LOST we WON!
Just had an epiphany!
So, like 75 years ago we dropped the bombs. More than 100 years before that, we had slavery.
Do the Japanese HATE US? Are Japanese people rioting and looting and burning down our cities? Are Japanese Americans persecuted and incarcerated disproportionately ( Blacks are incarcerated disproportionately because they commit CRIMES disproportionately) ?
NO! Why is that. Seems like the Japanese people could understandably hold a grudge.
BECAUSE IT WAS SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO!
GET OVER IT!
Like it has been said
Had it not been for Pearl Harbor, our action probably would never had been needed.
I first went to Japan in 1957 and have marveled about how well they treated us - Considering we tried to wipe them off the face of the earth 12 years earlier.
I also realized that WE were the source of money and a lot easier to relieve us of our money by being nice rather than hateful.
(In a lot of circumstances, it was easier for US to converse with the Japanese Nationals then,
than it is with some of our ‘in house’ aliens that ‘serve’ the public TODAY here)
Got to figure how - had the tables been reversed - say Japan Nuking San Diego & San Francisco how ‘we’ would have accepted them some short time later.
Can only speculate but how many would Japan have ‘slaughtered’ had they won, based on their ‘Bushida’ rules.
I have often thought of what would the results have been had the German ‘brain’ and Japanese ‘ingenuity’ ever had really merged and if figuring the ‘Axis’ wins, would they have been satisfied with Germany/Europe and Japan/Pacific Asia or would it have been an inevitable clash?