We can agree to disagree about Dresden and Nagasaki. I concede that your view isn’t with out merit and could be argued that the Allies went too far. I guess it depends where one wants to draw a line.
I don’t have an issue where one wants to point out the US’s failings. For sure when it comes to the Middle East there have been many.
My issue is white washing the “enemies” to make them seem “not so bad”. Yeah, the US has done a lot of things with bad repercussions down the line. But don’t act like the mess is entirely the fault of the US. And don’t make statement’s like Assad’s government being “legitimate”, as he is a dictator. Yes he ran a secular government (so did Saddam and Mubarak), but a secular dictatorship is still bad. You didn’t compare it to Saudi Arabia earlier, by yeah, a monarchy isn’t legit either. Even half way progressive nations like Qatar still have a monarchy in power.
The US has plenty of examples of screwing up that you can throw up as examples with out needing to twist the other players as just poor leaders doing their best until the US screwed it all up. Their failings are well documented as well. In the spirit of “let’s be honest”, present every one as they are, warts and all.
