Beautifully written. I've thought about writing multiple apologies to the people and nations the US destroyed for capitalist interests. Once you see the US as it's seen by the people it oppresses, it's impossible to remain in denial.

It's also impossible to open people's eyes to the misery the US creates. If they don't see it, they don't want to see it, so they won't see it. The refugees who flee US invasions could share their horror stories, but they shouldn't have to.

I realize most Americans don't interact with the Latin Americans, Africans, Asians, and Middle Easterns who know the evil side of our nation. Plus, victims don't share their stories with people who don't want to hear or believe them.

Syrians, Afghans, Iraqi, Libyans, Somalian, and countless nations never asked or wanted the US to intervene, yet Americans insist everyone wants the US to destroy their homes and overthrow their governments.

The US claims to protect people from their leaders, yet the hunt for the evil doer kills more innocent civilians than the one-man regime. Still, we believe this is ethical.

I understand denial as a coping mechanism, but the cowardice in ignoring and defending the pain our government cause enables the mass killings to continue. At least, I don't sit with that guilt.

If Americans cared about democracy and foreign nations, they'd talk to people who have endured the wars, deaths, displacement, and terrorism the US inflicted on their lives. Unfortunately, we choose to remain ignorant because it's too much to bear.

If humanity survives the next century, historians will study the US empire and it will horrify them. The biggest, deadliest empire to have ever existed is too much to comprehend, but time will expose the enormity of US global dominance.