Superb-looking drama of Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and the Peleliu invasions by the responsible Hollywood duo of Spielberg and Hanks. The Pacific War against the Japanese is rich with doubts.  A burning Bunker Hill off Okinawa is the least of the irony.  The imperial aggression was fed in 1905 by the TR-imposed peace treaty that enslaved Korea to Tokyo and at the same time alienated Tokyo from both Washington and Petersburg. At war with the Triple Entente, Berlin invited Tokyo to its side during the First War, and the failed effort produced the strange alliance of Berlin and Tokyo predators in 1941. Why did we smash Japan? Because it attacked Pearl Harbor. Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? Because we cut off its commodities, especially oil, and threatened more? Why? Puzzle continues. The Pacific was a massively brutal and merciless war between two peoples who do not have anything in common and barely want what the other guy has. Sad, blunt ironies.  Iwo Jima and Okinawa proved little and destroyed many, and to what end?  The bombs that we used against helpless civilians produced industrial mass murder with incendiaries in Tokyo.