Merely a century?

Well, before that they were eating that oppression from the British, French, etc.

Indeed. Therefore it seems a bit much to pick on America now given that it's doing no worse than what every powerful country has done throughout history.

>Therefore it seems a bit much to pick on America now given that it's doing no worse than what every powerful country has done throughout history.

Well, I don't think the above information would be much comforting to the people affected.

Maybe we should be picking on all of them, but even more so to the one actually doing it at the present (and for near a century)?

Especially since "picking on" (criticizing negatively) seems like the lightest of responses about the abuses and harm from a powerful country to others.

What I really meant was something from a different vantage point, like

> It seems a bit much to expect America not to throw it's weight around since there's no superpower in the history of humanity that has restrained itself like that. Instead it would be more productive to learn to to live with and mitigate it.