[rogue yam]

The report itself may be unverified, but his comment was a gut reaction to a generalization about his country. Too much of that goes on here. Someone did the same last week to the same poster and someone else made offensive comments to a French freeper. I just want people to think before they post.

I agree that people should be fair and balanced, and I don't claim that I have never crossed the line. But just like we should criticize our own leaders when they fail, so should we criticize our allies' leaders when they do so. And if someone feels with reason that the UK is further off the mark than the US, then I believe that's a fair comment to make as well (and I'm a huge anglophile). As for the French... well, I like a lot of the individual French people I've met but there is absolutely nothing good that I can find to say about their governing elite.

[sageb1]

I agree with you. Criticizing the leadership is not only fine, but necessary.