Thats not coincidence. Its their script to rationalize their criminal regime and offer an opportunity to their population to virtue signal as a means to cope with their own crimes and endorsment of U.S. crimes.
You are supposed to think about Guantanamo and other selected U.S. crimes against humanity and U.S. terrorist activities
U.S. regime and media control dissent, selectively hype up highly withewashed and encapsulated "incidents" where U.S. institutions obiously never fundamentally question nevermind reject their regime or incriminate and actually hold the the U.S. responsible as a whole, rolls over it with a few endorsed vigils, political platidutes and fake concern from U.S. experts in their U.S. ivory towers, while the criminals just continue and suffering of the victims is defacto not just completely ignored, but turned into some selfpity and selfmasturbation festival for U.S. Americans.
Then the subject is declared "case closed" and "come to terms with". Its "history". Its now a dirty spot on a whitewashed vest you want to forget about. At no point is the U.S. recognized as the criminal mafia and genocidal terrorist organization that massmurders, tortures and oppresses people on a daily basis that it is. At best it comes to a "remember Mai Lai yeah that happend", "remember Guantanamo yeah that happend", "remember Abu Ghraib yeah that happend", "remember when that Kuwaiti girl lied" even though all of them always had the full backup of the U.S. regime behind it who instigated them in first place and the consent or at least endorsement of their population.
The general U.S. population does not even actually percieve the U.S. regime as colossal and notoric liars that can never be trusted and Americans in Syria, Lybia, Afghanistan and Iraq as simply criminal massmurdering terrorist, but as liberators who sometimes are reminded about these "uncomfortable incidents". They continue waving their flag and toss consent for these criminals and their crimes into a ballot box.
At the same time the U.S. regime methodically starts projecting, simply put to relativize and distract from their own real crimes, that part is I know more than obvious to everyone, fabricating disinformation that hits close home to crimes and abuses U.S. Americans almost forgot because the majority never really cared about it, nevermind took personal responsibility for, but still knows about. Its just like a Holocaust, its just like Guantanamo, its just like slavery, its just like racial repression in the USA. And since that happend and the genocidal U.S. terror regime and its supportive U.S. population have "come to terms" with those, then the U.S. can, no it certainly must, judge and hold others responsible too even when the U.S. is the only one comitting the crimes.