As someone who does not live in the US, that strikes me as an incredibly spoiled and American-centric perspective. You do realize that the US is not the only country with human rights issues, and that the domestic issues in the US pale in comparison to much of the world? Consider the domestic issues in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.
I’m Indian, settled in Malaysia and a very strong supporter of China. Lived or been to several countries in East Asia or Oceania. Strongly leftist and socialist. So it is unlikely that I have an American perspective.
And no, I disagree that other countries pale in comparison to US on human rights abuses. To me, for example, the very existence of the 2nd amendment (at least its current interpretation) is a human rights abuse.
No these countries do not conduct terrorist activities or war crimes on foreign soil like the US does. Generally the first who come to mind are the ones who treat the whole world badly, in addition to their own people.
Oh, I see, you thought of the US as the mistreater of people in foreign countries rather than domestically? That I can agree with — someone being mistreated in their country is very unlikely to be in the US (except for a very expansive definition of mistreated) but quite likely to be in a country where the US is harming people.
Syria is in a civil war, with Russia and Iran assisting the Assad government and various other nations including the US having intervened at various points.
South Sudan's civil war ended last year.
Venezuela is not at war but is being embargoed by the US while facing an economic crisis.
I have no idea what Honduras is supposed to be doing except that it's overrun with crime.
Belarus is facing civil unrests and political upheaval.
I'm not sure what you're referring to with your claim of "several" of them being in the middle of "actual wars". The US is in the middle of several actual wars and military actions outside war in foreign territories (mostly drone strikes). The comment you responded to clearly stated:
> No these countries do not conduct terrorist activities or war crimes on foreign soil like the US does.
The US does both of these things. As do several of its allies. We just tend to not to think of these things this way because we're "the good guys". Let's not forget Guantanamo (which despite Obama's promises still exists) and that US prisons routinely use "solitary confinement" which is considered torture by the UN.
Iran? Last I checked they were trying to destabilize Syria, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen.
Syria? Lebanon comes to mind again
Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan? All of them are involved in "foreign soil" in some way
Egypt and Turkey vis-a-vis Libya (and Cyprus)?
Serbia/Albania vis-a-vis Kosovo
Morocco (Mali, Western Sahara)?
All of them are better than the US?
Not to mention that the behavior of a country "on foreign soil" is often very different than its behavior with its own citizens. That's why this division of good/evil countries often does not make sense.
I think the point here is that US always wages wars far away from their land, so they don’t have to worry about consequences or casualties. For most other countries war is something quite different from the usual business.
