[tacticalogic]

Don't forget the reservations that are sitting atop oil and natural gas reserves...

And that.

Some of our early history was pretty grim, but somehow the idea of a supposedly civilized modern superpower with a military space program, a nuclear Navy, and MIRVed ICBM's doing it doesn't sit quite the same.

[Army Air Corps]

...but somehow the idea of a supposedly civilized modern superpower with a military space program, a nuclear Navy, and MIRVed ICBM's doing it doesn't sit quite the same.

I think that is stems from the fact that the US, like many European nations, admitted to committing sins and has shown remorse for doing so. The Chinese government shows no compunction or concern and has no crisis of conscience when embarking on a course of genocide.