I love my country. I even served in the military. I have to admit, we do kill a lot of civilians and innocent people. Often, it's bad Intel or it's "acceptable collateral damage" but if I were that person who wanted nothing more than to live my life and I was killed to get to someone else, I don't really think losing my life would be "acceptable".
Our problem is that we have a way of life. We want our clean water, our fast cars, our hot women, expensive coffee, etc. and we don't sympathize or empathize with anything that doesn't contribute to that. Hell, many of us don't care what happens in other parts of our own country. Chicago is a war zone? Children are dying in Michigan? Sad. I don't live there. My family is happy. Everything is great. I'll forget about those who suffer by the time I finish this post.
Just keep telling me that I'm great. My country is great. The rest of the world is screwed up. I'll change my Facebook profile pic for them but I won't actually do anything. I mean, why should I? It's not effecting me, personally. Maybe some kid I knew will die overseas. That's about it.
I said before, you kinda have to wonder who the good guys are. It's shades of grey but lately, I feel like the United States is the loud drunken dad wearing a wife beater and carrying a gun, trying to convince everyone that what we're doing is justified. Meanwhile all of our neighbors are horrified.
