Suzanne, You are a texbook example of what happens when Americans are relentlessly and effectively propagandized. It's not really your fault, or the fault of the millions just like you also propagandized. Ronald Reagan's Neoconservative CIA director Wm Casey infamously said, "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." This is the source of your false "patriotically manipulated" belief. From GHW Bush, through Clinton, Bush 2, Obama, and Trump, the Deep State and its Media partners have "prepped" you to accept as justified some criminal military action against an Arab/Muslim nation in the Mideast. And if a propagandized American populace and the serial commission of war crimes -- and they were/are all war crimes -- isn't by itself horrifying enough, there's one more massively unpleasant factor in this tragedy that is so central that it cannot be, it ...