It’s just exposure and acceptance (or lack thereof).

Fifty years ago we (the US) were carpet bombing neutral countries as part of a bloody war to prop up a brutal dictatorship.

Around the same time, we were shooting protestors and systematically shutting minorities out of civic involvement.

A couple of decades before that, we put a hundred thousand innocent civilians in concentration camps because of their ancestry.

Less than a century before that, “the land of the free” had laws allowing people to buy and sell other people. And slavery was never really ended: the 13th Amendment has a big fat exception for prisoners, which we’ve taken advantage of ever since.

What’s different now is that we find out what’s happening more quickly and in a way that makes more people take notice.

Because they were used to eating their cake and having it too and they chose to keep acting evil when transparency made them unable to hide as well.

We aren't retreating from anything, it's just that in this political climate it's hard to continue to scream about moral high ground when the reality always seems to come crashing through.

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Why is western news media intentionally muddying the waters of public perception by comparing an American blacksite to everything in a sensationalist manner?

Let's save, "Nazi" and "Guantanamo" for the men who did the deeds.