You know, a lot of people get their information from outside the U.S. There's this thing called the internet. It works wonders. It let's you read information from all over the planet from the sanctity of your own home. You know, sites that are established in other countries? Wonderful technology it is.
Secondly, I didn't make my comments to cast the U.S. in the light of an angel. I made them to point out the fact that the other superpowers out there are no better than us, and in most cases, much worse. If you want to talk about sanctions and civilian attacks, just look at Chechnya. Some of the atrocities carried out there by both sides make Iraq look like a joke. For every story of American soldiers killing a few Iraqi civilians, there are dozens upon dozens of Russians rounding up Chechen civilians and flat out killing them. Along with Chechen rebels targeting civilians every chance they get.
We can look to China for their oppressive approach to anything that isn't Chinese like Tibet, minorities in the west, etc.
I'm not even going to bother going to the Indian wars because at that time, the rest of the world was pulling the same shit. Europeans and Asians were slaughtering people all over the planet. That was a violent time period.
And I'm not going to address the atomic bomb shit either. That argument can go both ways and be debated for months.
Well, the argument can go either way if you're blind and mute. Our president made a decision to kill as many Japanese civilians and that's that. There's no pretty way of looking at it. And yes, the Japanese commanders made the same decision, although on a much smaller scale and MAINLY, 95% of the time I'd say, targetting military installations (like Pearl Harbor).
Then again I'm not the one that said that our
gringos "[...]didn't blindly target Iraqi civilians[...]".
It just amazes me how all of a sudden, due to media scaling up their coverage of a certain conflict (undoubtedly to hide some domestic problem or due to Big Business asking them to,) everyone's mood gets aggressive and shit, when these conflicts, and much worse, are going on TODAY on other parts of the world. Then again, other parts of the world do not have a huge pipeline running through their territory... like the Caspian Sea area does.
Understand who is making all the noise and why now?