> They know it's unpleasant and may be technically illegal and they're fine with delegating their elected leaders to deal with that for them. I don't know; may

> They know it's unpleasant and may be technically illegal and they're fine with delegating their elected leaders to deal with that for them. I don't know; maybe there are plenty of people like this. But I think there are many (more?) of us who are not OK with these things but feel powerless to do anything about them. And that includes those of us who do appreciate America's hegemony and the relative safety and prosperity that it affords us, but who think that doing things like spying on citizens, bombing weddings, supporting coups, assassinating dissidents, invading and occupying countries for no good reason, torturing (e.g. waterboarding) prisoners, detaining people indefinitely, etc. are both morally wrong and counter-productive toward maintaining our position of power and prosperity and esteem in the world.