I'll admit it. :shrug:
I 100% agree that, in a war which Japan first attacked us with a sneak attack, in a war which basically came down to Japanese lives or American lives, we should have protected American lives. It's not like those soldiers in the Pacific theater were all volunteers, there were a whole hell of a lot of draftees, men who did no want to be there but had to. They were civilians, just like the ones destroyed by the bombs.
Yes, as an American, I place a greater value on American lives than I do the lives of any other country. And, assuming the moral issue is roughly equal, if I have to decide between American lives and the lives of any other group/country, I'll choose American lives. And I am perfectly aware the citizens of other countries feel the exact same way as I do, only in the opposite direction.
I don't think there's any shame in admitting if we had to decide between American lives being lost or Japanese lives being lost, I'm glad it was the Japanese lives which were lost. Ideally no lives would be lost, but that simply wasn't the reality of the situation at the time.