Whether it be the Mexican War, The Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam or Desert Storm the US does not hesitate to spill blood to save American lives.

This said, we still are twice as conscientious as the next country when it comes to caring about our enemies.

However now the pendulum swings to demonizing the US military and so a spotlight is shed on nearly universal practices of prisoner intimidation, no-holds barred interrorgation of foreign spies and prisoners.

The Germans were marching folks of to Auschwitz and places similar in the mid-forties.

Meanwhile, in Africa, we can look at the French practices in Algeria where genocidal practices occurred that make our bases appear like tough-love summer camps. Death tolls of 45,000 make our hardened psycho-killers blush with embarassment

And Belgian is infamous for their genocidal practices in the Congo. Leaving to many casualties for historians to count.

The USSR was running the gulags up until the early 90s and yet we will never hear much about them because USSR was never conquered it simply fell apart. Only the conquered nations have to make pennance for crimes against humanity.

China executes more folks in three months than the rest of the world does in three years

ON the UN anti drug day 2002 64 people were killed in China.

Gay blackmailers are executed in Iran

All the nations that can claim higher morality than the US have no army to speak of and usually nothing worth protecting.

Sadly, ignorance of the world allows the media to shape views and bend pliable American and western minds--usually into a state of self-criticism and guilt.

America is still the shining beacon of global virtue. Sure, it's realtive--but like it or not moral relativity exists. Law and conflicts do not occur in a vacuum.