If the US government gave 2 shits about freedom or democracy or human rights, they'd be doing far different things. There are quite a few nasty dictators in the world. They lie to everyone, and the media just backs them up and then pretends there's some difference between the two shades of gray political parties. And they use those lies to send poor children off to slaughter and be slaughtered. They care about money and power. That's it. The military industrial complex is just raking it in, and they'll make up whatever bullshit story they can in order to sell those death machines. They particularly love playing off people's racism and xenophobia because why not encourage the darkest corners of the human psyche. And lots of other people just sit and pretend it's not really happening that we are directly responsible for the constant bombing of innocent people. Of course it's really not that surprising when no one is even concerned that the police killed more than 100 people in the US in the month of January alone. It's madness.