Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers

And the fact that the US committed the largest naval force in history to destroy the Japanese Empire; dropped two nukes on her cities; and was the cause of the US entry in WWII meant what? The Americans wanted to bleed?

And the attacks on Pearl Harbour, the Bantan Death March, Hong Kong, Sinagpore, all those British and Dutch holdings, as well as the American protectorate the Philipines meant nothing and that they should all have been given to the Japanese?

There were TWO wars in WWII and both of them HAD to be won. The British Indian Army cleared SE Asia. The Chinese openned the Burma Road. And the Americans smashed their way from Midway through Iwo Jima, all with the specific intent of destroying the Imperial Japanese Empire.