>Finally: I already said I think that Americans are decent and generous. But you are also very inwardly focused, which is understandable when you are so big and strong, but also makes it difficult to understand real motives for people in distant lands. It is easy to simply write off their observations as unreasonable, but that does not solve the misunderstandings that are increasingly common in this world and which are causing so much concern and fear in western democracies at the moment.
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I don't think we're crazy enough to believe our country is not above reproach on any issue, but it IS OUR country. I haven't seen many, if any, posts here about how terrible France is for being a socialist state and involved with selling arms to Saddam, or Germany, or Russia, etc. Where is the outrage on those?

Sure, the US needs to be aware of our position in the world, but I think we are. What other country displays the generosity ours displays? None! That's not even counting the assistance our churches send out all over the earth. We have a process for dealing with our issues known as an election and that process is currently underway. It has served us well for a couple of hundred years, and I hope it will continue to do so. We aren't so thin skinned that we can't take some constructive criticism, but some of it here has been over the top.