But you won't see these murders broadcast relentlessly on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, nor discussed at length in social media threads. That's because the U.S. military committed them in their crusade against the Islamic State's "last enclave on the Euphrates in Syria," Reuters reported Monday.

It is for this reason that many Americans will dismiss comparisons between this type of mass killing and school shootings and other domestic mass atrocities. Their grossly overfunded (yet somehow financially irresponsible) military is fighting the good fight. If some innocent people have to die in the process Americans can feel safe in their homes and shopping malls, so be it.

"Collateral damage" is just part of the price the world must pay for the United States to police it and keep it safe, even as the American military has racked up millions of civilian deaths during its reign as the global arbiter of morality and justice.