Per-capita crime comparisons are politically irrelevant to host populations aggrieved by American troops.
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- Troop crimes abroad are viewed by host populations as systemic rather than isolated events. (similarity 0.86)
- Central American proxy wars killed 365,000 people across three countries (similarity 0.80)
- US military courts have acquitted personnel whose crimes provoked host-nation outrage. (similarity 0.79)
- Criminalized communities, not individual acts, determine who ends up imprisoned (similarity 0.79)
- Americans are far likelier to die from animals than foreign terrorism. (similarity 0.78)