[WaterDragon]

Do you generally tolerate snide insults from your friends? I'll personally overlook a lot, but when our troops, those young men and women, put their lives on the line for me, I don't tolerate some snot-nosed British newspaper printing insulting articles about those young men and women.

That it's okay with you is astonishing.

[Thumper1960]

Don't take the paper's storyline or the British Tommy's comments too seriously. These are the same blokes who make "regular" size condoms a bit larger than stateside rubbers. Hell, we've always had a friendly rivalry with the "mother" country. ;-> At least they and the Aussies came with us to Iraq!

[onehipdad]

It's definitely NOT ok with me, just understandable given the source, and discounted by the same token.

[Pukka Puck]

Snide, slyly disparaging, is the perfect word for this article.

Any self respecting American would be outraged at the obvious hatchet job done on Americans for no obvious purpose, except to cater to anti-Americanism, which apparently the author and the putatively conservative Telegraph, sense in even conservative British readers.

The author could have easily written a story praising the British troops and their methods and successes without having at the same time compare the British methods with what he purports to be the American methods. But this was not simply a boost British article, it was fundamentally a bash Americans piece.

I certainly share Waterdragon's outrage.