What's more, I recall the US in the last 2 decades:
- went to a war by lying about WMD and against the entire world (at least the world represented by the UN) will, killing thousands
- deployed mass surveillance of its own people, introduced bypasses to Habeas corpus and legalized torture using the Patriot Act
- elected a man that is at the center of so many Clinton-size scandals in a row it became the new normal
Now, I don't even begin to claim I have a superior country, mine has done many terrible things.
But let's not pretend the US (or any other superpower's) behavior has anything to do with morality. It's either naive or dishonest.
However, labelling everything with "war" is, indeed, a very American thing to do.