Look at current encyclopedia articles covering these topics [0][1][2][3][4][5] and see for yourself what sort of facts are headed for the history books. Parent is being very gentle on our neoconservative, neocolonialist, fascist, disappointing legacy.
You can find just as many atrocities and missteps of the law by scrutinizing other 1st world countries. The West as a whole benefits from the system that America has created and protects. History books will give just as much a shit about this era as they have any other and while America has the most dirt on her face, nobody is clean.
lidHanteyk|5 years ago
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus_in_the_United_St...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_Group
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
OldFatCactus|5 years ago