Unfortunately, most Americans don't understand that people may perceive them and our government this way. To be honest with you, at least in my memory of news

Unfortunately, most Americans don't understand that people may perceive them and our government this way. To be honest with you, at least in my memory of news coverage from the 90s until the war ended, there was very little if any notice of your civil war or the plight of the people. The most attention Sri Lankans might have gotten from average Americans were either post-tsunami (even then, more focused on Thailand and Indonesia) or when MIA broke onto the music scene (a very small demographic). I've been to parts of the world where 'USA' was used as graffiti and people loved us because of what we had done for them but the average American would be hard-pressed to identify what we saved them from, if even the where the country is. There are massive arguments for isolationism once more in the country, and ceding both soft and hard power to other countries. Many people don't understand the good we have done in the world, as well as the bad. You are definitely barking up the wrong tree if you think the current administration would have any interest but their own at heart.