It's all our fault

In spite of liberating millions of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, the relatively few human rights abuses apparently makes the U.S. to blame for human rights abuses around the world, like that wasn't already happening in countries like China, Syria, Egypt, Sudan, Venezuela...the list goes on and on. It's this sort of political grandstanding that makes groups like Amnesty International basically irrelevant. Here we are, fighting a war, and still those living in the U.S. are among the most free people in the world.

I'm not saying that what happened in Abu Ghraib and the allegations in Guantanamo, etc., are nothing to sneeze at. We, as a nation, should strive to behave better than anyone else in the world and stamp out systemic abuse. However, we are still human, and therefore mistakes, errors in judgment, and just plain malice will always be present in this war.