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President Trump wasn't wrong when he said terror attacks are under reported but sadly the underreported ones are committed by the United States and her allies.

What exactly is the "big picture" I'm missing here that is achieved by levelling Yemen one mud brick building at a time?

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And he wasn't wrong when he said in that recent super bowl interview "we aren't so innocent". Everyone is still jumping on him like he was saying the US is just the same as Russia, unable to accept the nuance that America has a lot of crimes to answer for.

As much as I hate to say it, Trump was right on this one. For every Russian journalist killed by the Kremlin, you could match them with an American anti-Vietnam activist, black activist, and yes, even journalists (Reuters).

Still doesn't make it Ok.

When O'Reilly mentioned Putin, the person, being a killer, Trump answered that the U.S. (not a person) isn't so innocent either, which yes true, also clearly deflecting and avoiding saying or acknowledging anything bad about Putin. What immediately came to my mind was O'Reilly could have followed up with "is the President of the U.S. a killer?". I thought missed opportunity, but of course, that could have never aired.

Missed opportunity for what? Click-bait word games?

This is exactly the problem we have with popular news media, they want these "hard-hitting" soundbites for their promos and clickbait.

The point was clear enough for everyone to understand. Leaders of countries take military action, and people die as a result on both sides. Russia has killed, America has killed. Whats funny is that O'Reilly said "I don't know of any leaders who are killers".

O'Reilly represents the sleeping American who believes USA is good, everyone else evil. Trump woke him up!

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