Collateral Damage: politics and the breakdown of every community

Reading one of the most powerful articles I have read in a decade, today, I am acutely aware of where I stand in American politics, and what I despise about the insolence of this country.
I wrote a blog about collateral damage in relationships a while ago. How people don't even acknowledge collateral damage because that's part of the game right? How to win the war right? In every good fight exists, some, if not necessary trauma and death. Whether death be, human and physical ending of life, or the death of spirit of community, and concept.
Today, this quote stood out to me in an article that was was so blatentely accurate and informative, I feared for the writers backlash and future. Americans hate to hear, or acknowledge the truth.
But, this:
"Then again, no one wants to feel like a bad person, and there's no need to apologize if you are oblivious to the harms done in your name -- calling the occasional ones you notice collateral damage (“stuff happens”) -- or if you believe that American force is always applied righteously in a world that is justly divided into winners and losers." Jeremiah Goulka (Full Article)
is TRUTH.
We, as Americans, have a sense of self that far exceeds the value of human life, and morality, around the world. For whatever reason, we believe that whatever we do, whomever we kill, in the name of justice and freedom, but actually in the name of capitalism and pure greed, overlapped by fear of anything not cloaked in our own generic value of what an American is supposed to look like, is A-OK.
This mode of thought is what has a majority of the world mocking and disdainful of the average American stereotype. All of us.
What we have become is a monster of mass destruction. Incapable of even adhering to our own parents values; childrens right's, and sense of self. The issues have become shadowed by media interpretation and vulgar masks of prejudice and classism. Blatant disregard for human life and rights, in lieu of concept of money - of which we have none. Our country is broke. Wake up!
War is not the answer.
Oil is not a life threatening and freedom bearing issue.
The taxes of one man, who "opts out" is none of our business. The only reason these are popular issues is because it divides our society. The politicians and the media in this country are insidious manipulators.

Making the pie pieces smaller neither enhances the flavor nor multiplies the amount of the pie itself. It simply makes smaller pieces for the few that get to taste it.

Collateral Damage: affects everyone.