YES YES YES YES YES

Thank you

Perhaps it is rationalized/justified/done in order to keep those nations from becoming strong and thereby is protective of our righteous shining city on a hill. But because it inverts and makes a mockery of our moral authority, a cornerstone of our rightful existence as global superpower, this explanation doesn't work for me. What does make sense is that our government is peopled by sociopaths who've institutionalized corruption, who are excited by the gravity and destruction and bloodshed of war, and who are addicted to this "supply". Like junkies who've destroyed their lives to feed their addiction, our leaders in government will destroy the nation and all the beauty of civilized humanity if there is no intervention.