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.

Dragan, if you're going to quote me, quote me directly. Clearly you missed the theme of the discussion.

My objection was to Nick laying criticism on the the U.S. doorstep with regards to U.S. actions after 9/11.

So from that, and your comments, I'd say that's a bit of the pot calling the kettle black.