And if the Japanese threatened to kill a million Chinese for every island we retook from them, should we have sued for peace and let them keep what they murdered to take?
We were attacked, our possessions taken, and our people killed. We were at war, and letting them subjugate the world because of what we were afraid they might do, would have been, in my mind, a greater immorality.
If we knew that 250,000 Chinese would die as a result of what was largely a morale-building exercise, should we have asked China for that country's input?