Kendall, I usually find your comments thoughtful. I try to stay out of this sort of debate? discussion? whatever, because it gets stereotyped and silly. The people of a state are not its government, and those who castigate the Americans or the British or whoever as though they were only succeed in riling everyone. And those who confuse error in confusing circumstances with negligence with war crime do too. But please don't bring up that debt we are supposed to owe the USA, who only entered the World Wars when they were attacked themselves, and tried to stay out when others were struggling. That entry was welcomed, and its outcome appreciated, but not the way we get accused of ingratitude, envy and weakness whenever we feel that the decisions of a government we have no chance to vote for, and for whom many of those who do don't bother to are wrong.

Its a new century and the past is the past.

Penny