I'm thinking it's you with the brainwashing. I see things how they are, and end, before I make up my mind. There are bad decisions on all sides, but leaders who kill their own people aren't leaders but dictators and terrorists, genocidal maniacs who all need to be eliminated, and it has nothing to do with the US, although they do get involved eventually in many things outside it's borders, some of them legitimate. Wanting to help a country's citizens by getting rid of a dictator, genocidal leader is a no brainer. What's wrong with being allies to the US, as well as all other countries? Isn't that the goal?