forget manicheism
Yeah because NO innocents died in the pearl harbor bombing, right? Because practically instantly ending a war is bad? A war that would have continued, practically non-stop.
Still killing 150.000 civilians was bad thing to do, not comparable to pearl harbor though they didn't open war but attacked cowardly, well u were both gay.
The war could have ended sooner. The reason they were a beaten country, they wanted to surrender but the US said no because in their surrender agreement the Japanese Emperor would stay in power(1). And 68 civilian died (most of which were friendly fire)(2)
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan#Divisions_within_the_Japanese_leadership (2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor#Sunday_December_7.2C_1941 (2) http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=17 (2) http://www.taphilo.com/history/war-deaths.shtml (2) http://www.angelfire.com/ia/totalwar/PearlHarbor.html