This amounts to "other people are bad too". Is that really a defense? It's also a question of scale. The amount of direct and foreseeable harm caused by the Uni

This amounts to "other people are bad too". Is that really a defense? It's also a question of scale. The amount of direct and foreseeable harm caused by the United States goes all the way back to its founding. The genocide of Native American peoples, the translatlantic slave trade, chattel slavery, segregation and then in the 20th century we go global. The British Empire is described as the first drug dealer empire. First tobacco then opium. Well the US is the arms dealer empire. Eisenhower's farewell address warned of the increasing threat and power of the "military industrial complex" [1]. But in virtually every conflict post-WW2 we've been on the wrong side. Take the defining moment of 9/11, a terrorist attack perpetrated by Saudis, funded by members of the Saudi royal family. What did we do? We turned around and invaded Afghanistan (who offered to hand over bin Laden [2]) and Iraq (who had absolutely nothing to do with it), killing millions. [1]: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwigh... [2]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.te...