>We really are not that far apart in our views. I have lived my entire life thinking this is the greatest country there is, and to an extent I still believe that.

So long as you don't get sick and need major surgery, and haven't go MediCare.

If one of you guys were to be run over in the UK, you'd be rushed to hospital, treated, given a bed, fed, get all your meds, etc. etc., without putting your hand in your pocket.

When we go to the US we're advised to medically insure ourselves up to the hilt.

>But there is no denying the U.S. is despised as never before.

Maybe so, but also emulated as never before.

>And I absolutely blame this administration. Belligerent, bullying, ignorant, selfish. We are far less right now than the country we ought to be.

Hearing what the CIA deem as NOT torture, such as "water boarding" someone, I just hope to God I'm never mistaken for a terrorist!