jayeff

I apologize for introducing what may seem like a tangent, but the contradictions within that one phrase are why we end up in situations like this.

There are only two circumstances in which you would really be fighting for your country: if it were under threat or if you were promoting its interests. Otherwise you are fighting for political ideology or to pursue someone else's ambitions.

So now back to you. You are your country. Without you it is just a piece of land for which, if you were born and lived elsewhere, you would not spare a second thought. There are millions of people like you, all living in a republic. You have a government made up of people whose role, however they choose to perceive it, is solely to carry out your wishes. They may believe they understand a situation better than you, but in that case their obligation is to attempt to convince you of that. Although they may be allowed under law to make what amount to unilateral decisions, doing so is contrary to the spirit of government "by the people, for the people", etc.

In short, if you genuinely believe that a policy is wrong and you see nothing in it which benefits your country, surely by extension you must believe that you would be damaging your country to support that policy.