American warplanes had sunk a Japanese destroyer with great loss of life. We killed 2,000 Japs. My father, in his one and only trip to philosophical bat, knocked it over the philosophical fence. I know what you mean. I must say, though, that if it were not for the loss of the Chinese pilot, I'd actually be glad the whole thing happened.
Ignorance is the sperm of apathy.
If you don't know, you can't care. And this generation of Americans knows little and cares less about Communist China. And that is that China is not just some sort of Asian Sweden that never quite got around to forming more than one political party. I honestly believe I could mount a better case economically and militarily for helping Adolf Hitler's Third Reich in the 1930s than Communist China today. Little did we realize at the time how lacking was the fighting will of those Nazi neighbors.