It's the American people who are at large -- mostly ignorant of how their foreign policies over decades have not only impacted other nations but their own. This is why history and political science teachers include books and lessons to remind students to critically analyze and understand how their policies have repercussions for years to come. And yet the fundamentalist right (US version of the Taliban) have manipulated their followers and have them pulling books out of the curriculum in the name of "critical race theory." In fact, it's just studying the ugly, factual history just as you have pointed out in this statement. The US created that monster. Period.