This is a common rationalization used by people who are not merely idle bystanders. The world is a vastly different place for someone who is protected by Americ

This is a common rationalization used by people who are not merely idle bystanders. The world is a vastly different place for someone who is protected by American hegemony vs. someone who is on the kinetic end of American foreign policy. If we brutalize people for decades, or prop up those who brutalize them, we shouldn't then blame the victims of this brutality for being damaged or for hating our system. EDIT> We may still have to fight some of these people, but we should do it without bigotry and with compassion for non-combatants lest we continue the cycle indefinitely.