Marco Rubio told a room full of lawyers yesterday that the American story is "extraordinary," that it has "no precedent in the history of the world" and that "our history is better than any other."
He is right that it is unusual, because few countries in history have killed on such a scale.
In its 250 years, the United States has carried out almost 400 military interventions abroad, invading 84 of the 194 countries of the world and being militarily involved in 191 of them. Only Andorra, Bhutan and Liechtenstein were spared. At home, she enslaved millions of black Americans and each numbered about three-fifths of a person, while she expelled native nations from their land and punished their children for speaking their languages.
We will list the rest, but it will not fit into one caption.