Replace the slogans with "Our Democracy"TM, and similar, and that's broadly correct. The actual American people are just there to provide funding and cannon fodder for the Neocon global Empire (and the private interests of individual Neocons of course), the same way Roman citizens were for the Late Republic and the Senatorial elite.
Now, Cato can loudly proclaim his Roman patriotism entirely honestly while his idea of Rome is nothing outside the interests and ideology of the Senatorial elite. Neocons have to do more doublethink to reach the same conclusion with all the advances in political thought since Rome.
If you want to have empire then you must compensate the people who make your empire possible.