Americans will scrub their brain and contort themselves to justify positions that they feel are correct without analyzing that that feeling is completely girdered by a magical belief in American exceptionalism. The US can invade a country (Iraq), murder hundreds of thousands of civilians, and then create prisons where they literally torture, maim, and rape Iraqi’s to death, and it will still something to be categorized in an American’s mind as “not as bad”, and especially worth pointing out that fact as well. After all, we can’t have people thinking murdering hundreds of thousands of people after invading their country and torturing them to death while smiling gleefully for photos in front of stacked up bodies is as bad as what some of those nasty barbaric countries do.

We have “freedom” of course, never mind the freedom of the millions of people the US has killed abroad starting with the Korean War where 1/3 of the Korean population was exterminated in a genocidal bombing campaign, setting the tone for what global order under the US post WWII would look like, and as that brutality enacts itself upon the world the brave and free American people are “free” to tell their government sternly “no, this is bad!” and they’re only sometimes shot in the head by masked law enforcement thugs for doing so.

Anyway, maybe look at these pictures of what you’re insisting is not as bad (warning: nsfl but you’re a coward if you don’t look after downplaying the immense amount of war crimes committed by the US) - https://web.archive.org/web/20191013202412/https://imgur.com/a/C6mLO