But countries that constantly drop non-nuclear bombs on other countries and murder civilians and children are still cool, right? USA only averages 46 strikes per day for the past 20 years. So maybe the cutoff is at 50.
It was missing because it wasn't a relatively civilized country where people who look like them are dying.
Muted for two reasons:
(1) racism, as many people have noted, but also
(2) the fact that the regimes the US was taking a flamethrower to in the middle east were ones that the international community would have acted against previously for war crimes, etc., even despite racial bias against the targets, but for superpowers standing in the way (notably, in the case of Saddam’s Iraq, the United States itself.)