No, that's why we left. It was ABSOLUTELY the way we left.

"We waged war, but we failed miserably at providing the conditions for a sustainable post-war state of peace. In the end, that means we failed completely"... Very well written ... this quote says it all ... Thank You Marianne!

They are all real big problems. And We are all expected to just ignore all of it.🙄 We have never been very good (understatement!) at holding ourselves accountable for atrocities that we created. We need to raise the bar on ourselves and do better.

Who we were and how we acted is certainly a problem but how we exited is also a problem. It just is. Who we are is part of how we exited, both problematic.

And how to hold on to some "champion of Western Values" cred while ignoring the whole war-crime thing?

Yep, that’s the truth

Exactly

None of it matters because it was mostly brown folk that were killed or maimed (and some poorer Americans, who also don't count), and because the people that own the govt basically got rich(er). Amirite?

war crimes were always hided by the guilty part

And why you went in the first place!