>>>>>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.
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>>>>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.
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>>>It is to Americans. Why shouldn't it be?
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>>Because you believe that you have the right to intervene anywhere in the world whenever your interests are perceived to be threatened. The combination of such self-centered view and proclaimed right based on own perceived importance is among the top 10 reasons everyone loves the US.
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>I took his statement to mean that in every country, whatever happens in that country is more important to its citizens than what happens elsewhere. It doesn't mean what happens elsewhere isn't important, just not as personal as what happens in your own country.

Which as true as it is irrelevant to the discussion. It's the "Kevin basically telling Nick to STFU because the UK has less experience", i.e. when this augmentation by proximity blinds one to what happened far away, yet doesn't stop him from telling those far away places what's big and what's small. Looks like a parochial POV, paradoxically.