The body of the people is not the same as the body of it's leader. But the soul and the spirit might be. This only lays morality at the choosen/elected leaders feet.

We have pulled the rocks from the ground until our fingers have bled. We collected seeds from the fruits from the land and planeted them in long, straight furrows. Like the ranks of soldiers, when we finished and looked at what we accomplished... We did not see a garden, we saw a scar. The land had saved our lives and we as the people have done it no service. All we have done was destroy it and ruin our own futures in doing so. For our reasons were...