It helps that they exported their kills somewhere to some far away country in the Periphery, in some conflict or atrocity most Americans aren't aware about. Even Vietnam is mostly just remembered for being hell on the troops (and oh-so-funny fortunate son memes), never mind that stuff like My Lai was the norm, not the exception. To a lesser degree, same applies to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Though, I'd say allowing the existence of the Jim Crow terror regime to continue at home in the South (to say nothing of the racist shit the West and North were doing) contradicts that for all presidents prior to LBJ. Libs will excuse that with something like "America was super racist and they had to politically maneuver" and they're right in a way, which is why I'm not just holding them accountable as individuals but the (bourgeois) democratic body they represented.
It helps that they exported their kills somewhere to some far away country in the Periphery, in some conflict or atrocity most Americans aren't aware about. Even Vietnam is mostly just remembered for being hell on the troops (and oh-so-funny fortunate son memes), never mind that stuff like My Lai was the norm, not the exception. To a lesser degree, same applies to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Though, I'd say allowing the existence of the Jim Crow terror regime to continue at home in the South (to say nothing of the racist shit the West and North were doing) contradicts that for all presidents prior to LBJ. Libs will excuse that with something like "America was super racist and they had to politically maneuver" and they're right in a way, which is why I'm not just holding them accountable as individuals but the (bourgeois) democratic body they represented.