The American People will never be safe until they properly prosecute their war criminals. American policing organisations are riddled with very real war criminals calling the shots.
Don't be so surprised that what these people did to Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya and Yemen, they will do to the American people.
This is why the American people, if they are to turn things around and create a just society, must continue to demand justice for their own very real war criminals all the way to the top.
As long as Obama and Clinton and Bush(es) and now Trump are free to continue to propagate their death cult policies, there will not be justice in America, for Americans - or around the world, for anyone.
Americans must understand: as a nation, they have been kneeling on the necks of others for decades, and the American People are themselves complicit in the act.
Until there is real justice for this magnitude of criminal behaviour, the streets will not be safe for anyone deemed 'inferior' by the death cult.
The Americans who are feeling the boot now are largely the same ones that have been feeling the boot since before the US had status as a major power, uniformed police forces, or even independence.
They've gotten more sympathy from other Americans recently than they had centuries ago, which makes the anger about it more widespread, but it is certainly not a reversal where the people directing the US’s comparatively brief (even if you go back to the Monroe Doctrine) colonial empire and now feeling the boot of oppression in some kind of karmic balance.
To the extent there is a relation to any American war crimes of the last couple decades, you've got the direction of influence exactly reversed. The deep, ingrained racism and tolerance for domestic injustice in the US is the root from which the overseas abuses grows, not the other way around.
And what America feels in the last week is a form of karmic retribution for all the suffocating that the American people have, themselves, supported over the last few decades.
The victims may speak a vastly different language, but the policies that led to the boot on the neck are one and the same.
In short, we've been at this a lot longer than you seem to appreciate. I think you're right that today's barbarities depend on those of yesterday more directly than those of centuries ago, but they also depend on those of centuries ago. It might be that poor whites are more observant of our common interests with minorities than we used to be. We had been promised a society with more freedom and possibility than the one we have received, and our Stupid Wars have played a role in that, here and abroad. As Thucydides observed, the tyranny Athens imposed on others it finally imposed on itself.
The point is, there is something that can be done about it today, and it involves unity and cohesion and universality among a large group of people.
This isn't happening fast enough, because there are very real criminals standing in the way - out there in the shadows - and until the light of truth is shone on them, civil upheaval as we see, will continue.
So, the riots will be quelled, eventually, and so too the protests. Remember Occupy! And after that, a return to regular school-shootings and terrorist attacks.
After all, it has always been that way.
No, your argument that “fix the (recent) US overseas policy and you fix the (centuries older than the country’s independence) domestic problem since the latter is just a domestic reflection of a culture rooted in the former” will continue to be defeated by the fact that you have the relationship backwards.
Maybe you can fix the one that is the reflection automatically, or at least more easily, by focussing on fixing the one that is the historical and cultural antecedent, but if so you need to fix the domestic one to fix the foreign one, not the other way around.
> The point is, there is something that can be done about it today, and it involves unity and cohesion and universality among a large group of people.
No one is arguing against that vague platitude, but against the much more specific claim that foreign abuses the US has committed since becoming a superpower are the root of domestic abuses it has been engaging in since it was colonized by Europeans.
I believe the American people will forever be driven by this utterly violent, racist, intolerant turmoil, because they allow it to occur in their name behind a veil of secrecy and privilege: in the actions of their military.
Americans cowardly do not want to be shown what their military does to other 'inferior cultures', they actively invest in efforts to make sure such light of truth is never shone on their state, and when it happens within their own borders, live, on TV, in a way which cannot be denied...
America is an embarrassment to itself, since this means that its own citizens don't have a clue what the rest of the world knows about the victim count in its illegal wars.
There's a reason this victim count for the Coalitions' wars, as well as its ROE, are high secrets - and for citizens of various 5-eyes state, just knowing these secrets makes them 'criminal' in the eyes of their corrupted judiciary.
Today its the cops. Tomorrow, it should be the Generals. As two groups, they share many, many social networks. There really isn't sufficient distinction between the US Police circle, and the US Military circle for it to be of any real consequence.
And that is my real and final point: We, the people, will be forever ruled by a criminal elite for as long as we let them get away with murder.
Which is happening at the rate of, about say .. 1 innocent victim every twenty minutes for the last twenty years ..
Kapisch?