Question: Were the republicans weakened by the war against Japan?
About the article "Cold War", section "Chinese Civil War and SEATO".

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The Democrats included a strong element that came of age in opposition to the Vietnam War, and remained hostile toward American military interventions.
On August 1, 1990, Iraq, led by Saddam Hussein, invaded Kuwait.
President Bush formed an international coalition and secured UN approval to expel Iraq.
Congress on January 12, 1991 authorized by a narrow margin the use of military force against Iraq, with Republicans in favor and Democrats opposed.
The vote in the House was 250–183, and in the Senate 52-47.
In the Senate 42 Republicans and 10 Democrats voted yes to war, while 45 Democrats and two Republicans voted no.
In the House 164 Republicans and 86 Democrats voted yes, and 179 Democrats, three Republicans and one Independent voted no.
The war, a military operation known as "Desert Storm," was short and successful, but Hussein was allowed to remain in power.
The Arab countries (and Japan) repaid all the American military costs. 
Federalists used the dispatches to question the loyalty of pro-French Democratic-Republicans; this attitude contributed to the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts, restricting the movements and actions of foreigners, and limiting speech critical of the government.
Federalists were otherwise divided on the question of war, and the Democratic-Republicans painted hawkish Federalists as warmongers seeking to undermine the republic by military means.
Elbridge Gerry was placed in a difficult position upon his return to the United States.
Federalists, spurred by John Marshall's accounts of their disagreements, criticized him for abetting the breakdown of the negotiations.
These bitterly harsh and partisan comments turned Gerry against the Federalists, and he eventually ended up joining with the Democratic-Republicans in 1800. 
British Indian army participated in this campaign against republicans, how ever about 600 Muslims soldiers inspired by Allahu Akbar warcry from Republicans defected to republic with weapons.
75 of these soldiers survived the war, some decided to stay in Indonesia when others returned to India or Pakistan. 
Periodic air raids on Japan were the first attacks undertaken by Allied forces.
In late 1944, these raids were followed by a major strategic bombing campaign against Tokyo and other military and civilian targets throughout Japan. 
The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877.
They called themselves "radicals" and were opposed during the war by moderates and conservative factions led by Abraham Lincoln and after the war by self-styled "conservatives" (in the South) and "liberals" (in the North).
Radicals strongly opposed slavery during the war and after the war distrusted ex-Confederates, demanding harsh policies for the former rebels, and emphasizing civil rights and voting rights for freedmen (recently freed slaves).
During the war, Radical Republicans often opposed Lincoln in terms of selection of generals (especially his choice of Democrat George B. McClellan for top command) and his efforts to bring states back into the Union.
The Radicals passed their own reconstruction plan through Congress in 1864, but Lincoln vetoed it and was putting his own policies in effect when he was assassinated in 1865.
Radicals pushed for the uncompensated abolition of slavery, while Lincoln wanted to pay slave owners who were loyal to the union.
After the war, the Radicals demanded civil rights for freedmen, such as measures ensuring suffrage.
They initiated the Reconstruction Acts, and limited political and voting rights for ex-Confederates.
They bitterly fought President Andrew Johnson; they weakened his powers and attempted to remove him from office through impeachment (they were one vote short).
The Radicals were vigorously opposed by the Democratic Party and often by moderate and Liberal Republicans as well.