Matt c. - Everyone who got killed or maimed...or lost a loved one...got his or her "ass kicked" in that war. As in every war. That includes a lot of people from your country too. So I wouldn't advise gloating too much over the suffering inflicted on the losing parties, if I were you. People do not march off to a war imagining that they are serving an evil or a wrongful cause. They normally think they are doing a very good, necessary, and patriotic thing, because their government and their whole society has told them so.

If you'd been born Japanese, that's exactly what you would have thought in 1941....unless you are the one in 100,000 exception to the general rule, and I doubt that you are.