Um...the facts that the military has historically been used by governments to push influence and capture resources for centuries and centuries?
I don't think the Nazis even attempted such a lame argument. But regardless, thank you for your admission that the US has a long history of military actions to steal other countries' wealth. That is the ultimate war crime, the illegal invasion of a sovereign nation, which encompasses in it all the other crimes committed as a result of the original.
The fact that local citizens and leaders helped greater nations rape those resources throughout the colonial and imperial era?
Americans call those kinds of people traitors. To Americans they are the lowest of the low. They are like a father who sells his daughters/sons for sex purposes. Now you are using this as a defense for US rapacious behaviors. Really?
The fact that, in cases where CIA-led coups were successful during the Cold War, locals were instrumental in the effort to bring down their own governments?
Same as the above. You like it and you think it is good that the US buys loyalty for its predatory war crimes and terrorism. Are you particularly fond of the sex traders who deal in little children?
No, I do not ignore. I merely accept a truth and can write it up much better than you. One day, instead of obnoxiously whining about such matters, you too may be able to rise above the narcotic of blame.
"the narcotic of blame", do you mean like Justice Robert H Jackson who at Nuremberg said
"This inquest represents the practical effort of four of the most mighty of nations, with the support of 17 more, to utilize international law to meet the greatest menace of our times-aggressive war."
Aggressive US wars, the ultimate war crime, which you totally acknowledge, the ultimate war crimes that you lamely try to explain away.
Jackson also said,
"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched."
additionally, he warned,
"We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well."
Because, as I deducted [DEDUCED, not 'deducted'] before, and since you refuse to disclose who you are, you appear to be one of those little people who can't bring himself to look into the mirror. You appear to greatly need to be able to blame foreign devils for all of your woes, especially the U.S.
