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Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of innocent lives lost, murdered by America's war machine in its lust for total military domination of its so-called enemies.

Its not enough that Americans' finally come to grip with the terms of their own scam. The American people must confront the crimes against humanity that their state has committed, time and again. With such human destitution in its midst, as well as at the end of its spear, America simply cannot consider itself such a great nation for much longer .. I mean, for a lot of Americans, the USA is a third-world country.

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Yeah, it's not that black and white.

Despite a pretty spastic and often misguided foreign policy, the US human rights record is much much better than other large political entities (i.e, USSR, China, etc).

China and the USSR being worse does not absolve us.

I don't disagree.

it all depends on one's perspective. the US has done awful things to its citizens, they just aren't as amplified by our propaganda mills as the wrong doings of our political enemies.

> the US human rights record is much much better than other large political entities

While the US treats its own residents better, their human record rights abroad is much worse. If China started the war in Iraq instead, all news outlets would have called it as genocide. The US basically toppled a ruler of a stable country, gave the "good side" a bunch of guns, and told them that anyone who opposes them is evil. Inevitably, the two sides fight and kill each other as well as hundreds of thousands of civilians. The US just feigns surprise and shrugs their shoulders.

While this may be an unfair summary of the war in Iraq, this is about as much nuance as American news outlets give to Russia's war in Ukraine or China's treatment of Uyghurs.

Sounds like a fair summary to me. Add Afganistan and Syria for good measure.

"The US basically toppled a ruler of a stable country, gave the "good side" a bunch of guns, and told them that anyone who opposes them is evil."

That "country" could also refer to Germany or Japan of 1941.

It doesn't sound fair to me, but to be fair, you probably get your news from the Daily Show.

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