>How is mentioning starving millions attacking you?

You are twisting my words about solving problems in the US to being unconcerned and ignorant about problems elsewhere.

>As an outsider with a few more countries under my belt than you, my "take" is that the USA may not be perfect but things are not so bad.

I agree. But whats your point? The we should not be preventing downward spirals while we're trying to clean up the rest of the world? Yeah right, thats hardly a stable strategy and you know it.