For a long, long time, the greatest physical threat to an American has been other Americans. As a result, the more ruthless among us have felt free to use people from other countries, who own fewer guns and fewer dollars, as pawns and catspaws.

The main conflict is America vs. America. Right now, the Americans that believe in the Jeffersonian ideals of civil liberties and limited government are losing to the Americans that uphold the Hamiltonian ideals of unbridled government power serving common nationalist interests--namely, both the Democratic and the Republican political parties.

Since other nations also have their own authoritarian factions, it's very hard to shed a tear when two deadly adversaries war against one another, even knowing that they will hurt innocents in the process. The people who actually care can't really do anything to stop it.

It seems arrogant and entitled, but it is actually much worse. The people doing it are so secure in their power that they are doing whatever seems convenient to convert a portion of that power into spending money. That brown guy that died in a fire was just some Beltway Bandit's monthly boat payment. Thanks to dilution of responsibility, there is a complete ethical dissociation between the blood and the lucre.

And the worst part about it is that the government of the country you live in is probably quietly supporting this behavior. The best thing for an "outsider" to do is to kick the authoritarians out of their own country, and start calling the US out onto the carpet internationally instead of just cashing the aid checks and blindly signing the multiparty treaties written by American business lawyers.