I’m not a historian, but my guess is that we have lived too many generations without major political incident; the kind you’re supposed to make heads roll over.

Really though? Just off the top of my head:

Eisenhower to Nixon

• Vietnam

JFK

• Rigged elections in Illinois with aid of the mafia.
• Bay of Pigs

Nixon

• Watergate
• Being Richard Nixon

Reagan

• Illegal invasion of Grenada
• Iran-Contra

Clinton

• Executing a developmentally-challenged man as a campaign stunt.
• Lewinsky Affair
• Many rape allegations over decades
• Whitewater

Bush II

• Illegal invasion of Iraq

Obama

• Bugging of Merkel’s phone

Trump

• Everything

Biden

• Medical incapacity

There are, they are being reported. I couldn’t speculate as to why you are missing them.

They are legally obliged to refuse to carry out illegal orders. “Just following orders” is no defence against war crime charges.

Indeed, longbowmen can be identified as their skeletons are significantly deformed over years of training.

See: Afghanistan, Iraq.

America are the toddlers who have found father’s gun and decide to blast at anyone withholding sugar.

The idea that the American military are competent enough to go after just the cartels is laughable. Not to mention the violation of Mexican sovereignty.

Then you see what they did in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Any boy over the age of 12 was considered a potential terrorist therefore a “military age male” and was thus fair game for special forces murder squads, air strikes, drone strikes, and was not needed to be included in the official statistics for civilian kills.

In short the American military apparatus uses Terrorism as a green light to go for maximum overkill, regardless of the level of civilian kills and socio-economic impact. This in turn sustains the vast economic forces in defence contracting and makes a lot of political donors a lot of money.

It also rids the US of thousands of low-income patriotic-but-stupid people who sign up to the military because they have few other career options. These would later cost the state money in Medicare but not if they get killed in action.

War is primarily big business. Moral and legal factors take a back seat.