None of what you say is untrue Freddie as you'll see from other posts of mine within this thread and on another thread on the same topic, I have already acknowledged most of what you say.
What I qoute as an "American" point of view is a reflection of the attitude to foreign policy that has become internationally acknowledged as reflecting the actions and intentions of your leaders and their lapdogs.
As I state in that post you just referenced, it is not the sum of all America I address, merely the followers of the cult of Bush, a selfish, thoughtless monetaristic regime, which has taken advantage of the debt it is owed for it's intervention in both world wars to involve the rest of the world in it's own empire building. And yes, where America leads, most often, to our shame, Britain meekly follows. I am as ashamed of our man Blair as I am of your president.
We in the UK have our own sins to atone for. The very slaves your nation built it's economy with, who fought their own battle for emancipation, were stolen from Africa by the British and sold to your ancestors. I lived for years in Bristol and later near Cardiff, the two centres of this heinous trade in human suffering and have seen the monuments still standing to the evil men who carried it out. We also built an economic empire supported by untold acts of brutality and murder that lasted for 200+ years
My post you refer to was motivated by my own shock at a previous poster who claimed that destroying museums was ok as long as the oil money kept flowing. It was my intention to address that solely.
America has no empire and I've not suggested they do once. We did, and it was lost, rightly so. No country has the right to destroy another's culture, and I make no defence of my ancestors perpetration of just that.
As for the origins of the American people. It is entirely true that you are descended from migrants within recent history,and consequently the country has a very short, yet full heritage. Whilst people like yourself are aware of that, yet justly proud of what exists, some are not. It is those people I address and not the US population as a whole. I apologise if I did not make that clear.
Regards WWII... I live in a city that was in parts laid flat by German bombers, parts of which are yet to be rebuilt. It is also the city the pilgrim fathers left from on their voyage to the New World. Hitler's hordes may well have won in the end without the might of America, but to describe us as having been on the edge of oblivion is perhaps a bit strong. Almost the whole of Europe was fighting alongside us, all united in their common purpose of defeating a madman and his brainwashed armies.
America certainly shortened the war and saved alot of innocent lives. If they were doing so now, not following an example closer to that of the German despot mentioned above, we would all sleep happier in our beds. Hitler blamed Jews, Bush blames Moslems, both were smokescreens.
You are a good man Freddie, and worthy of great respect. Luckily for you Bush has yet to start executing or intimidating those who oppose him like his 20th century German pedecessor. We're relying on people like you to oust him before that happens... for your sake and ours.