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What the fuck are you talking about? US troops regularly raped and massacred entire villages in Vietnam. My Lai was not an isolated event, it was standard operating procedure.
Then there's Korea, where we destroyed every building over three stories tall and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
During the Filipino-American War, American troops regularly looted homes before shooting and killing any civilians who tried to surrender or who got in the way. Over 1,000 people were massacred in Titatia. Just look at this photo where Americans massacred a different town:
Women raped and stripped of their clothes. Dead kids. Americans grinning and standing over their kills like they were on safari.
What about Abu Ghraib? The "kill team" involved in the Maywind District Murders?
The rapes and murders of Hadeel and Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi? Or how about Eddie Gallagher that murdered a 17-year-old kid and got pardoned for it?
No seriously: who the fuck are fooling with "a handful of times per war?" The US is every bit as cruel as Israel and revels in the atrocities it commits. The distinction doesn't even matter anyway considering a bunch of """Israelis""" are US citizens.