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When Iraq threatened our oil supply, we sent troops in to annihilate their military and to take away their right to fly airplanes in their own country. We then deliberately fostered insurrection in their country for good measure. We decided to keep troops on their border in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and these countries could just get used to it. When Christians and Muslims started fighting a civil war in the Balkans, we decided that we were bored and started bombing the Christians before invading uninvited to make it better. We then kidnapped the Christian leaders and put them in jail for terrorizing civilians to try to win a war. We also sent troops uninvited into Somalia to “help”. We told everyone they couldn’t have guns and shot anyone carrying one in the streets for any reason, period. When they got uppity and fought back we got mad and started kidnapping people and killed a couple thousand people. When we lost less than 2 dozen guys it was a tragedy, so we left.

When the people in Saudi Arabia got uppity we kept troops there and started asymmetric attacks against us (with one really big one), we went apeshit and started sending in commando teams all over the place to kill people we didn’t think liked us very much. We put flying robots over 8 different countries, without their permission, and started killing their citizens because they made us scared. Our leader and his advisors felt like they had left stuff undone, so we invaded Iraq on trumped up accusations that didn’t pass intellectual muster and overthrew their government. We had their leader executed for the crime of killing rebels in his own country. When the same people started fighting US, we flattened several cities, started a program of targeted assassinations and mass arrests. We tortured some of those prisoners because it was funny. When that got out, we started outsourcing our torture by having our intelligence agency kidnap people and send them to some of those friendly dictators who didn’t have a free press to tell on us.

When all of this was going on, the Libyan president got nervous and dismantled all of his chemical weapons and gave them to us. He then declared his eternal friendship with us. When his people started a revolt, we decided to be really funny and reward his conciliation by helping them kill him by sodomizing him with a kitchen knife. When those same people turned out to have scary religious beliefs, we sent in the robots and commandos to kill people at random. Sometimes we got some kids, but it was for a good cause. They got mad and killed some of our commandos and spies, because they’re just crazy. We still have robots killing them.

When there was a revolt in Syria, where the same scary religious guys wanted to overthrow the government, the government started fighting back by flattening cities, and using targeted assassinations, mass arrests, and torture. We said that no civilized country would do that and started giving the scary religious guys guns to kill this president too. Way better than kitchen knives. Even though no one was attacking us, we put troops in their country and started killing one group of religious guys while supporting another similar group, without having been invited. When the president of Syria actually did invite Russia to help, we said that this was outside of all international norms and they were destabilizing the region. We also said flattening cities, targeted assassinations, mass arrests, and torture were SO wrong, and made lots of speeches about it.

Don’t buy into our own propaganda. We are no better or worse than any other powerful country that has ever existed. No one is “good” or “evil”; we do things because it it’s a rough world out there and we look after our own interests, and do what’s best for the United States. That anyone believes we are somehow morally better, and we have a RIGHT to do all the stuff we do because we’re “the good guys” just shows you the effectiveness of our indoctrination as citizens. That’s ok. It’s way better to win than to lose. But if you want to know why a lot of countries despise the US government, re-read what I wrote and realize that, while a little flippant, it’s all true. We have no real moral high ground in international relations. We didn’t do any of what we’ve done because it was “the right thing to do”, we did it because we thought it benefited us. When other countries behave the same way we do in any capacity, we freak out. Just think about it critically with the blinders off, you might just see the world in a whole new way.