Despite a pretty spastic and often misguided foreign policy, the US human rights record is much much better than other large political entities (i.e, USSR, China, etc).
it all depends on one's perspective. the US has done awful things to its citizens, they just aren't as amplified by our propaganda mills as the wrong doings of our political enemies.
> the US human rights record is much much better than other large political entities
While the US treats its own residents better, their human record rights abroad is much worse. If China started the war in Iraq instead, all news outlets would have called it as genocide. The US basically toppled a ruler of a stable country, gave the "good side" a bunch of guns, and told them that anyone who opposes them is evil. Inevitably, the two sides fight and kill each other as well as hundreds of thousands of civilians. The US just feigns surprise and shrugs their shoulders.
While this may be an unfair summary of the war in Iraq, this is about as much nuance as American news outlets give to Russia's war in Ukraine or China's treatment of Uyghurs.
