> IOW, I am surprised that Americans do not realise that the only difference between POTUS and Kim Jong Un or Saddam or... Is what they can reasonably get away

> IOW, I am surprised that Americans do not realise that the only difference between POTUS and Kim Jong Un or Saddam or... Is what they can reasonably get away with doing. Fyi, I imagine you're getting down voted because, to my knowledge, the current US government doesn't have labor camps or gas minorities. A better soapbox might have been "histoically, the US is as guilty as anyone of exterminating indiginous peoples."