What a strange question!
Calling something "policy" doesn't make it free of moral considerations.
For example, our objection to Osama Bin Laden was his policies. By all accounts, he was a perfectly civilized man in person, but as a 30+ year New Yorker, I wanted him caught and punished because his policies caused the deaths of 3000 of my fellow humans.
So yes, Bin Laden was not a decent person, and this is 100% because of his policies. Mao was a monster because of his policies.
Hundreds of thousands of completely innocent Iraqis were killed by the United States invading their country.
The war was based entirely on lies - lies that had been exposed as lies before the war started. There was literally no plan at all to deal with the war. The "plan" was that the US military would walk in and be greeted as heroes and be back at home in a few weeks.
Instead, the war cost $2 trillion dollars, killed more Americans than 9/11 did, and killed hundreds of thousands Iraqis - a hundred 9/11s in a country a tenth the size of the United States.
And yet you just brush this off as policy. In your view, no one should suffer the slightest consequences for participating in this massive war crime. In fact, you literally don't mention it in your response!
Like so many Americans, you consider non-American lives, particularly when they are Muslims, to have absolutely zero worth.
So you are astonished when people get angry with your country murders a couple of hundred thousand people. "How rude of them get bent out of shape!"
"Vote in your local elections. The roster of leftist candidates who can run for president is.... ZERO."
It's so strange that you tout your horribly broken Presidential system as if it's a good thing.
Actually, I voted socialist in my last local election, and they won - well, they got a plurality, and now Amsterdam has a more socialist government.
You forget that there are actually humans who are not Americans. Again, it comes from assigning zero value to non-American lives.
"Change doesn't come from bitching about people and shitting on their motivations."
Ah, America, where enforcing international law is redefined as "bitching"!
Change doesn't come at all in America, actually.
Nixon committed a series of crimes, and everyone shrugged. Then Reagan committed a series of crimes and everyone shrugged. Then Bush committed a series of crimes, and the Democrats willing participated in them. Then Trump commits a series of crimes and everyone's surprised.
America's foreign "policy" has been a series of war crimes my whole life, and I'm almost 60. I left rather than continue to be a party to these series of inept bumbling genocides from Vietnam to Libya that America never learns from.
For generations, America has made a point of protecting rich, powerful politicians from any consequences of their criminal and evil acts. Trump is the logical consequences of this moral bankruptcy.
Four years from now, or eight years, when the consequences of Trump have fully played out and the economy has collapsed, another Republican will be elected, and he'll be just as evil as Trump but less delusional and more competent.
Then he'll just take it all apart.
It seems inevitable. Everyone's convinced that if Biden wins, he will be too old to serve a second term. And the idea that Americans would elect a black woman to the Presidency in 2024 is completely inconceivable. As someone far to the left, I am not blind to how sexist and racist the average American is - even supposedly "progressive" Americans are pretty reactionary by European standards.
And I don't expect Americans to be better off four years from now than now, which is the gold standard for predicting elections.
It will be awful, but it will be the logical consequences of a country that allows their leaders to commit atrocities with impunity under the name of "policy".
