Sounds like you're a typical "conservative" and as such you ostensibly oppose a collectivism known as socialism. I find it peculiar that you espouse a related type of collectivism, nationalism, to combat socialism. Socialists speak for "society" and play divide and conquer class warfare games, and you speak for "America" and play divide and conquer nations-at-war games. Those that fail to see the world your way just don't get "the big picture", or can't make sacrifices "in the national interest".
Your attitude of "Screw the country but don't hurt little ol' super intelligent me" crap is now worn thin
Is this to say that an individual looking out for his/her own interests necessarily "screws the country"?
If we "stand up for the country" and obliterate Al Qaeda, is the war for freedom won? All sarcasm aside, now that......:
The BATF can intimidate law-abiding gun owners and burn them alive when they defend themselves against illegal raids
The Feds can come along and take your property if they want (without any compensation given to the owner) by claiming to have seen a few marijuana plants from a helicopter, or by inventing a new endangered species and claiming that your land is its habitat
The IRS knowingly defrauds American citizens by convincing them they are liable for an income tax which was never imposed on them
You're kicked off a jury or otherwise threatened with contempt of court for failing to vote only as the law says, instead of voting your conscience
Personal firearms ownership and citizen militias are villified and militia leaders are imprisoned on phony conspiracy charges (and a large, much better armed standing army is accepted as the bulwark of the nation's defense, in direct contrast to what the founders had in mind)
The state declares war on homeschoolers by seeking to require licensing, and forces all citizens to fund youth propoganda camps (otherwise known as government schools, the reproductive engine of the welfare state) whether or not they use this "service"
.....when is "the country" no longer "the country" that our fathers/grandfathers hit the beaches at Normandy to defend? What must happen here for you to ponder if the critical front in the war for freedom is in the Middle East or in the US?