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The boat strikes? That doesn't sound probable to me, and since there was no vote taken on it I don't see where that data comes from. Only the morons occupying the government right now think that what they are doing is just.
They are your representatives. You may not like how your representatives are representing you on the international stage but they're still your representatives. None of us care that someone is "one of the good Americans." It's your country's leaders that are taking a shit on everyone else and Americans are the only people who can do anything about it. From the outside it seem like although very few Americans like what's going on, even fewer are willing to do anything about it and expect the rest of the world to do it for them.
Well guess what, Americans did this to America. We're not coming to save you, we can't. We'll be annihilated by the United States if we even suggest we'll try. You're on your own, figure it out.
You are right that they are the representatives of the whole country. Which is pretty fucked up. I just want to point out that most citizens (definitely over half) see the murder of civilians as a war crime, and not something that the executive branch should have the ability to do.
We'll be annihilated if we try to do anything about it too. The only "opposition" our overlords allow is to vote.