You're right. Even with past official government experiments on US citizens .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States .. i agree the barbarism today of the Saudi regime stands out. I did feel at the time uncomfortable with a sense of unfair whataboutism, and agree your point is fair and well made.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”