The moral abyss that I refer to—here, not the callousness of turning
away from the consequences of US financial decisions, but the absolute
desensitization toward what has been left out: a nonnegotiable military
presence which permeates consciousness, policy-making, the nation’s very
identity, in disregard of all that is, or rather, could be, the moral obligation of government to its people and the world beyond.
-- Norman Pollack, "Psychodynamics of US Default" (CounterPunch).