Most times when it looks like people being anti-American. Mick, you should recognise it as disappointment and a sense of betrayal.

We see what is a great country in so many many ways; but one way and another it seems to let itself down; and that lets down the whole world, because in a way you Americans are the whole world, uprooted and transplanted to a New World, and armed with the wealth and resources to keep it a paradise and make it a paradise, and an example.

That sense of betrayal hurts, and hurt comes out as anger sometimes. And stuff like this feeds into that.

I've just finished watching the four part documentary When the Levees Broke, about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, shown over two evenings on BBC Four. And the most shocking thing about it was not so much the disaster itself, but the aftermath.

The one thing we thought we knew about America was that, when push came to shove, it could take care of business, and could move mountains. And somehow it just didn't happen, and it kept on not happening. And the most heartbreaking thing, watching the anger - and sharing it - was that they weren't angry because they hated America, but because they loved America. And these people represented one of the most greatest and most precious cities in the world.