The United States global military presence is undoubtedly without parallel in the annals of history and clearly second-to-none. For instance, qz.com reports that: "Altogether, based on information contained in the DoD’s latest Base Structure Report (BSR), the US has bases in at least 74 countries and troops practically all over the world…" Because the United States takes it upon itself to act as the world's policeman for whatever reasons, the United States consistently involves itself into the affairs of sovereign nations throughout the entire world, again and again and again. While, such involvement in other countries from a humanitarian, educational, logistical, and benefactor perspective is to be applauded and appreciated, the involvement of US military forces is often something of a completely different nature.
In America, we take it for granted, whether true or not, that our entire population is informed, educated, and literate, along with having adequate housing, acceptable medical care, and being well fed. While this may be the perceived norm in America as well as in most western nations as well as other first world countries, this is certainly not true for a significant portion of the world at large. That is to say, results.org states that: "Nearly 1/2 of the world's population — more than 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day." Further we read on speakingbooks.com that: "Illiteracy threatens over 785 million adults worldwide, translating into one in every five people on the planet." This means, for a significant portion of the world, people are threaten with both extreme poverty as well as suffering the lack of basic literate skills, so that these people are unable to subsequently form competent viewpoints of global affairs and for the most part would be unable to come to a definitive conclusion as to purpose of any America presence. Further obfuscating this issue, America itself, often doesn't seem to have consistent and clearly defined objectives on any of its many foreign interventions, so that the decisions of foreign citizens and the "ruling" government within sovereign nations as to whether to aid and abet American interests or to oppose them is guesswork, at best.
Then too there is the very basic issue that most everyone inherently believes that they have the right to defend themselves from attacks both foreign and domestic. The fact that in your defense that you are massively out-armed, out-maneuvered, out-thought.and out-classed in every aspect of these things, may make your defense utterly futile, but what of it? Are you to suppose that those that wage war upon you are in reality your liberators or are they your oppressors? Are these people that lay siege upon your land your emancipators or are they your enslavers? How is it possible for you, typically poor and uneducated, to know that difference between the two, and in absence of such definitive information, isn't it the better part of valor to protect your own, even until death itself?
It is not a crime to defend yourself, and your country of your birth and residence from attacks, or to cede even an inch of ground. You may not have a lot of knowledge, but what you do know is that you have an inherent obligation to protect your family, as well as your community, and further that you have not brought upon yourself this violation of your own natural sovereignty. So for those in America that delight in tallying up the day's kills of the enemy, recognize that each man, woman, and child whose life has been terminated by your actions, that they were often just doing exactly what you would be doing, if you were in their shoes.