The same Afghanistan where we gave weapons and money to the Mujahideen, and drug traffickers like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar? (Operation Cyclone) Who had a nasty habit of splashing acid in women’s faces? The same Afghanistan who, after being there for twenty years, we simply looted their central bank?

Also, for every dictator we have ever removed, we’ve propped up three more. Whether in Latin America (operation condor), or in the Middle East, or Africa, or Asia (the Jakarta method).

Countless invasions, coups, drone strikes, economic sanctions, blockades, assassinations and what do we have to show for it? Being the worldwide arbiters of violence doesn’t seem to be doing this nation any good right now.

Anybody that has routinely aided in the overthrowing of democratically elected governments, has invaded more countries in the last 60 years than anyone, has lied their way to a war in Iraq that killed nearly a million people (many of them civilians) has carried out experiments on unwilling participants, who exploits child labor to maximize profits, does not have universal healthcare, has black site torture prisons around the world, no guaranteed maternity leave, routinely allows children to be murdered in schools , and has more people imprisoned than any other country in the world per capita doesn’t care about human rights.

We’ve outsourced so much of our manufacturing and labor to China it’s insane. You reap what you sow. Corporations wanted cheap labor and goods, and they sent it to a country the US routinely insult sand derides. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t tell us China is an authoritarian hellhole, and then outsource that much labor and manufacturing to them, because then you’re complicit in human rights abuses. But then Again, the US has never really cared about that.