>Kevin seems to think that something like 9/11 is the worst thing that could possibly happen to a country, and that people from other countries have no right to comment because they haven't experienced anything as serious. I believe that viewpoint lacks perspective.
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>With all due respect to the heinousness of 9/11, my position is that unrestricted general warfare is far more serious. The effect of WWII on the average Brit was far more traumatic than that of 9/11 on the average American. Figuratively speaking, with 9/11, the US got slugged in the face unexpectedly by a stranger, and knocked on its keister with a broken nose.
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>Kevin basically telling Nick to STFU because the UK has less experience of trauma and suffering, is simply ignorant.

But it fits nicely with the view that whatever happens with/to/in the US us larger, greater, more serious and more important than whatever happens anywhere else in the world.