Sort of like the Holocaust was not aimed at Jews, just the Jewish leadership. It wasn't the Germans who murdered six million Jews, it was that tiny minority in the government, and that tiny fraction of Germans who manned the camps, and the armed forces, and the munition factors, and the railroads and the farms and police and schools and media, and who took possession of shops and factories and artwork and homes stolen from Jews. Other than that tiny minority, Germans were blameless.
The civil war was just between politicians. WW I was just between some monarchs./sarc