[Zhang Fei]

and let us not forget that the Japanese military was killing MILLIONS in China, including millions of civilians. China was our ally. The USA had every right and reason to do all in its power to end by the earliest possible date the insane depravities the Japanese military was inflicting daily in China.

All of this is true. But we don't even have to stretch that far. The lives of American boys are valuable, too - they're not pieces of wood to be fed into the sawmill. If the enemy breaks the rules (not engraved in stone, but conditioned upon reciprocity), he should not expect us to abide by them. And Japan broke the rules, repeatedly and without a second thought. Given the millions of civilians and POW's they tortured to death and summarily executed throughout Asia, I think the Japanese should be thankful that it was Uncle Sam, and formerly Japanese-occupied East Asia that decided the fate of postwar Japan.

[Zhang Fei]

Given the millions of civilians and POW's they tortured to death and summarily executed throughout Asia, I think the Japanese should be thankful that it was Uncle Sam, and formerly Japanese-occupied East Asia that decided the fate of postwar Japan.

That should have read:

Given the millions of civilians and POW's they tortured to death and summarily executed throughout Asia, I think the Japanese should be thankful that it was Uncle Sam, and not formerly Japanese-occupied East Asia that decided the fate of postwar Japan.