Reply #18: The war against Japan was believed to be justified at the time.... [View All]

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...and even knowing today that Pearl Harbor was a setup to cause Japan to launch their attack, I still believe going to war against Japan was the right thing to do. By the time we entered the war against Japan, Japan was allied with Germany and Italy, and at war with a number of countries that later became our allies during WWII.

I also believe that had we invaded Japan instead of dropping the nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many more Americans and Japanese would have died during and following the invasion than the number of Japanese that died as a result of the two nuclear weapons.

Conversely, a war against Iran would be very difficult to justify for any reason, following as closely as it does the unjustified invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Iran has never attacked the US, or US interests. Iran is not currently at war with any of her neighbors...the last war fought by Iran was against Iraq almost twenty years ago. A nuking of Tehran would not be looked upon with favor by a majority of Americans, not to mention the rest of the world. Most Americans are slow, but not stupid. Besides, Al Qaeda was supposedly our primary enemy along with Osama....what happened to the operation designed to eradicate them?