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Their actions can be necessary, and still war crimes and/or abhorrent. These are not mutually exclusive.

We can be grateful for the outcome and many sacrifices and still speculate about whether or not specific actions were necessary and justifiable.

And we can actually recognise the atrocities committed by the Japanese military and question actions by the allies at the same time.

It is understandable that a lot of decisions were taken that had horrible outcomes, and that many of them were taken in good faith and probably the only viable decisions despite how atrocious they might seem in retrospect. That does not mean we should just gloss over everything.