It's not exactly hypocrisy to complain when someone attacks you and not complain when your enemy gets attacked. I suppose you could say that it's hypocrisy to

It's not exactly hypocrisy to complain when someone attacks you and not complain when your enemy gets attacked. I suppose you could say that it's hypocrisy to complain about being attacked while also happily attacking other countries (which would be relevant if the US was responsible for this attack on Iran). In general though, people and countries like to believe that they are in the right, and that there is no justification for someone attacking them, whereas if they attack someone else it's because they deserved it or it was self-defence. I don't think we should condemn all self-defence as hypocritical, but perhaps a better argument for hypocrisy in this case is the fact that the US and Israel are both nuclear powers trying to prevent Iran from becoming one. Even that is an over-simplification, though.