I'm writing an article about how the left views the Cold War that is pertinent that you might want to some day read. I may send the link to it when it comes up again (I will follow you because your article and response to the clear leftists on this article demonstrate your lucidity) but for now I'm going to quote one of my passages

Fundamentally this argument operates much in the ideology of leftist dogma when it comes to so many of the more significant decisions in American history practically from the founding. It eliminates every other consideration at the time – economic, domestic, geopolitical – and reduces it strictly to a moral argument, with a right decision and a wrong one and as always America made the wrong one. Like almost every argument the left makes it is done with the benefit of hindsight, particularly those of an academic environment.

This is written primarily about the decision made to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which you refer to here but it applies as a general rule to all leftist thinking across the board. And it's worth noting it is ONLY western nations that are the ones who have to meet this standard of morality; non-Western nations either never do or in many cases whatever horrible things they do are either justifiable or never discussed. That all of these values are made with the benefit of decades or even centuries of hindsight never enters the discussion as well as the separation from time or place, as your article implies if not states directly.

Cogent and rational discussion that I cling to.