America gets these ahistorical-context criticisms too. We often hear morons dumping on America for the nuclear bombings of Japan, as if WWII was not going on at the same time. I won’t go into the details here, but I’ve figured that those bombings, by forcing Japan’s surrender when they did saved 250,000 American lives, hundreds of thousands of lives of people from the other allies, and probably millions of Japanese lives. The death toll of Japanese from an invasion of Japan could easily have totaled 100 times the numbers killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, and perhaps more. It would have meant, most likely, the destructin of Japanese culture too, from the way the Japanese forces intended to fight.