Mate, you're preaching to the converted and that's rather my point. I know what my country's done wrong. But when it comes to Britain, it's a case of pots and kettles.

Criticism is fine - in fact it's vitally important. But there is a smug, patronising sector of the liberal left in the UK who love a bit of American-bashing. Maybe it comes back to that whole thing about British guilt - they love it that the world has a villain that's seeingly worse than the Britsh Empire was.