@Mame,
Quote:Many countries have been or are guilty of the same things you accuse the USA of. ... Why are you so fixated on the USA?
Mame, don't take this the wrong way but your level of ignorance is quite fulsome.
Right now, the US is, far and away, the top criminal nation on the planet. These other countries you mention are, for the most part, far distant history.
In the case of Japan, the Japanese paid dearly for their mistakes at the hands of, guess who, the Americans, when the Japanese weren't doing anything that the Americans weren't doing themselves.
The Americans tried and executed Japanese war criminals for the very things the US had been engaged in for 40 years in the Philippines.
Guess who the US didn't try and hang. The worst Japanese war criminals of all. These folks the US protected in exchange for their secret medical research. Same thing in Germany. With all the propaganda about how diligent the US was about finding Nazi war criminals, they brought into their fold many ex-Gestapo/SS.
As you are well aware, the US recently led two illegal invasions [that means they were war crimes] into two sovereign countries. The UK wouldn't have had a hope in hell, nor would Canada or Australia, though I'm hardly giving the war criminals in those countries a pass.
Sammy the Bull Gravano was not a fine human being, and as vicious a murderer, as deeply immoral as he was, he was a piker compared to his boss, John Gotti.
The US is the John Gotti of world countries.
All the crap about the US being the savior of the oppressed is just that, crap, major crap. The US cares not at all about the oppressed of the world. The facts, for those who are willing to view them, clearly illustrate this, in spades.
Spend 17 minutes listening to this American MD, a woman of Jewish/Iraqi descent.
CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS: Dahlia Wasfi at Iraq Forum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELjgVq6GtPA