Interesting side note about American imperial wars and American touristas.

My first trip to the UK as an innocent American travelling abroad was in 1970, during the height of the Vietnam War. I wanted to talk about it incessantly, because I was curious to find but what Europeans thought. Oddly, I didn't find many takers who were all that interested.

My last trip to Europe was two years ago, and this trip it was all Europeans wanted to talk to me about, and I was the one who wasn't much interested in what most of them had to say.