I get it. Whenever people die in Europe or America at the hands of people allegedly connected in some way to ISIS or other jihadist groups, its horrific. It gets a ton of media attention. Muslims and their faith are called into question. Yet when thousands die from US air strikes in Iraq and Syria, the news is ignored, or glossed over. Which makes me wonder who the real terrorists are?

The Pentagon has admitted the most recent US airstrike attack in Mosul killed over 100 civilians. At a minimum.

A Pentagon investigation has found more than 100 civilians were killed in a US bombing in Mosul, Iraq, in March, making it one of the largest incidents of civilian death since the US air campaign against Isis began in 2014.

The military reports 101 civilians in the building were killed, and another four died in a nearby building. Thirty-six civilians remain unaccounted for.

Remember, this is what they admit to doing. It doesn't take into account the under-reporting and cover-ups of other air strikes by the US and their allies. Read the New York Frigging Times in their May 25, 2017 article titled "U.S. Airstrikes on ISIS Have Killed Hundreds, Maybe Thousands of Civilians," if you don't believe me.

Data compiled by Airwars, a nonprofit group that tracks reports of civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria, showed a significant jump in the number of reported deaths in the first three months of 2017.

The military recently confirmed that American-led airstrikes had been responsible for at least 352 civilian deaths since the start of the war against the Islamic State. But Airwars estimated that the total was eight times higher. The group found that at least 3,100 civilians were killed in American-led airstrikes from August 2014 to March 2017.

As the NYT reported, US military officers in the Middle East have the authority to call in airstrikes against snipers, almost guaranteeing increased civilian deaths and other casualties. Then there is our government's increased airstrikes in Syria, which have led to - surprise - increased deaths of civilians, as the Washington Post reported in March of this year.

BEIRUT — U.S. drone aircraft fired missiles and dropped a 500-pound bomb outside Aleppo on Thursday in an attack that the Pentagon said killed scores of al-Qaeda militants but that local residents described as an assault on a mosque crowded with civilians.

U.S. officials said the strikes in the town of Jinah killed “dozens” of militants at a meeting of the terrorist group. But local activists and a monitoring group reported that at least 46 people died, and more were trapped under ­rubble, when the attack struck a mosque during a religious gathering.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring network, described the scene in Jinah as a “massacre,” saying the dead were mostly civilians. Photos from the area showed rescue workers pulling mangled bodies from a mound of rubble.

And these are the deaths our mainstream, CIA funded mainstream media have been willing to report. What does not get reported are the number of deaths, many of them atrocities, attributed to US backed groups in Syria and their Al Qaeda allies, because no mainstream media outlet will touch that story with a ten foot pole.

All over the Middle East, including Yemen and now Somalia, as well, US forces are participating in or assisting airstrikes and bombing raids that would have been called terror attacks in WWII. We are told these strikes are killing terrorists. The truth is they are killing for the most part people who pose no threat to the United States. In effect, the US is involved in genocide and war crimes along with its major allies in the region, especially Saudi Arabia. We've even armed both sides of the war in Yemen!

The US death machine rolls blissfully across the Middle East, while back home our government's actions are portrayed as defending America from terrorists by a lying and complicit media. Yes, the country most responsible for millions of deaths in the Middle East since George Bush the First, has been called a liberator, a supporter of democracy and a defender of freedom.

The truth is far harsher. Our government and its use of our our military in these endless wars, has committed war crimes, from the use of chemical agents, to torture, to the massacre of civilian populations, to death squads, to the funding of known terrorist organizations to do our bidding.

In short, America is the Bad Guy we've been looking for. We are the face of terror that the rest of the world fears most.