How so? Inflammatory would mean it's either irrelevant, unfair or harmful in some way. Stating a correction to a fact is hardly either. If someone stated that

How so? Inflammatory would mean it's either irrelevant, unfair or harmful in some way. Stating a correction to a fact is hardly either. If someone stated that the attack on Pearl Harbor happened in 1945 and someone else corrected them that it happened in 1941, is that inflammatory? Edit: Maybe you're referring to it being called a "war" in the first place is inflammatory? I'd give you that, and we'd be better off calling it a conflict as none of the parties formally declared war, but then we start veering into semantics instead...