"Well, Charley, I look at the contributors to the thread and I believe they'd have a major 1,000 post fight over whether beige is a real color, only about 97% will spell it "colour". Mudcat Traveling Wrecking Crew."

I don't know how many US posters here have expressed concerns about this action, but there were quite a number of more critical US based posters at the outset I believe. Currently there do seem to be a number of non US / international posters - principally from Canada and the UK it seems, who have are more critical than most of the US posters currently posting.

I haven't read any international media coverage, but it would be interesting to find out - if or how - media analysis in different countries internationally, differed from that of mainstream US media coverage in terms of how positively or negatively, the mission has been represented.