Richard, I don't understand what motivates you to open threads which comment on some disagreeable fact or other about the USA. I don't understand your reasons for opening this one in particular. It deals with a topic which has been discussed over and over again, ad nauseam, ad infitum, with the same points made endlessly by the same people.

All it does is irritate those American 'Catters who know perfectly well what happens in their own backyard and are perfectly aware of the issues surrounding the topic. Do you pretend to some British moral superiority which you want to wave in the air? If you do, it's fucking tedious.

If you want to get worked up about social issues, there's a whole heap of shit in our own UK backyard - try concentrating on that for a change.

As if anything discussed here - no matter how hot the topic gets - will make any difference anyway.