[dragonwriter]

> Where was this energy when the US was taking a flamethrower to the entire Middle East region?

Muted for two reasons:

(1) racism, as many people have noted, but also

(2) the fact that the regimes the US was taking a flamethrower to in the middle east were ones that the international community would have acted against previously for war crimes, etc., even despite racial bias against the targets, but for superpowers standing in the way (notably, in the case of Saddam’s Iraq, the United States itself.)