Martin, the USA may have an identity (although Americans are perhaps more a people, if they are a single people, of varied ancestry than any other, two notable other candidates for that honour being England and Australia) but as you frequently demonstrate you and the regrettable parts of the USA that you seem to idolise have no culture (save perhaps greed). The closest you get is redneck fascist bigotry and xenophobia , which is some irony given your ethnicity and religion. Why are you surprised when people you bombed back into the stone age don't welcome you? You don't even seem to have the wit to recognise the way the USA has harmed other societies and their social and religious systems.

It was you who compared your invasion of Iraq with "9/11", not me.

Dave - our history goes deeper than that with some sense of continuity despite the Roman dispersion (and the Viking rape before that) of our indigenes.