The US did some disproportionately heinous shit after Pearl Harbor. For example: 2,500 people died in the attacks on Pearl Harbor. The firebombing of Tokyo kill

The US did some disproportionately heinous shit after Pearl Harbor. For example: 2,500 people died in the attacks on Pearl Harbor. The firebombing of Tokyo killed somewhere between 90,000 and 120,000 people - most of them civilians, and most either incinerated or asphyxiated by incendiary bombs over the course of six hours. It's the single most lethal day in human history - even greater than the atomic bombs, where over half the deaths were lingering affects of radiation over weeks, months, or years. Curtis LeMay, the Allied Air commander in the Pacific, freely admitted that he would have been tried as a war criminal for the firebombing of Tokyo had the Japanese won. Don't rush to justify everything the US did just because we weren't the first to strike.