War never on US soil? So you were merely eating goober peas between 1860 and 1865? And the Red Indians left the Great Plains because they were fed up of living there? OK, this century then, and memories are short anyway.

The real problem is the asymmetry of American thinking. It's OK to use whatever means are available or necessary to defeat any real or imagined enemy, but if the enemy applies that attitude to you, that shows how wicked and immoral they are.

Spell it out:

If it's OK for the US to attack other countries, it's OK for other countries to attack the US.

If the US can use torture and detention without trial, so can anyone else.

It's not, and it's not.