I'm not saying that you decided to go down a dark alley, but like if someone shoves/pulls you into one and you have no choice in the matter. And, that is definitely a reasonable point, but, if two people are competing in some way over something and one guy punches the other, then the other one beats the crap out of the other guy, is that wrong? Nope. In my opinion, we wouldn't have gone to war if it weren't for Japan bombing us. It might have been a similar situation to the Cold War with Japan, but we most likely wouldn't have attacked them.