Moral Societies

It is fairly easy to determine moral actions for individuals.  It becomes more difficult  to discern moral actions in the context of an immoral society.  A soldier killing combatants in Afghanistan is essentially protecting his territory against an aggressor, a moral act.  The complications arise when the reasons for the aggression are added to the equation.  The United States over the past century has acted imperialistically in various areas of the world and in particular, the Middle East, in order to secure a steady supply of oil.  These actions have created an intense environment of suspicion and hatred of American policies and have driven the rise of organizations designed to increase the impression of repression by the United States while created pseudo governments who entire purpose is to fight the enemy.  The United States in its energy policy has provided the means necessary to fund these organizations with its purchase of oil from OPEC.  Afghan rebels would not exist without the petrodollars flowing into the region even though Afghanistan does not have significant oil reserves, they are aligned culturally with the Middle East and thus receive OPEC funding.  Thus the Afghan rebels consider their actions as equally moral as the American soldier. At the root, the Americans need to either pay the price and accept the terms for oil production or provide internally its energy needs to act morally.  The Afghans need to exclude American influence and OPEC nations need to use theri petro-windfall to crate sustainable economies to act morally.  Neither entity should try to subject the other to their version of government or religion, which has never worked in modern times and is immoral to try.