Many consider it sound practice to judge a tree by its fruits. Americans have founded and maintained the freest, most powerful and prosperous country on earth; the greatest country of all time; the country that is the envy of the world; a country that feeds and assists impoverished countries all over the world and has the most people trying to get in.
A stupid people does not accomplish this sort of thing. But every nation has its share of dim bulbs and Kilmer is one of them.