@glitterbag,
I'm first generation here, and that may make a difference. In Detroit, then, if you answered the question "What are you?" by saying "American" you had to be tough. I played Irish football for the Gaelic League, and got in a lot fights with Polacks. My father, who was then in Congress, voted against Lend Lease. Washington, where we spent half our time, was far more homogeneous and anodyne.
I rarely hold grudges about anyone ( I simply ignore those I don't like - see there's hope for you! Blatham too !). As for the Brits, I spent a lot of time in one of their RN attack squadrons; checked out in the Buccaneer aircraft and even collected a few traps ( arrested landings) on the old Arc Royal. We did lots of ops with NATO allies and many other nations, including Japan & S, Korea during my squadron days, and later on ships I commanded. Frankly I liked the French the best, and found their outlooks and temperaments far more like our own than those of the British. The Aussies and Koreans were next. Since then I have travelled widely and frequently, but lately mostly to Europe and Latin America.
You know very little of my experience "cloistered" or not. My impression is that I'm a lot more tolerant, and I have a much wider variety of professional experiences (in the Navy. grad school, and later in business) than do you. However, in contrast, I haven't attempted to prejudge, categorize or pigeon hole you. (Well maybe a few - I recall a couple of unsavory wise cracks about bureaucrats.)
We disagree about many things political and probably otherwise. I'm accustomed to (and have learned to value) often forceful disagreement with my professional associates and friends too. ( Forceful disagreement and anger are very different things - an often forgotten truth.) The clash of viewpoints, if done without rancor, can lead to mew insights and understanding. Sadly that has largely disappeared from A2K
I agree, neither of us needs anything from the other. I don't know the origin of the hostility and anger you suddenly appeared to develop towards me, and don't really need to know either. However my experience has been that such things usually injure the one holding such feelings far more than the object of them. I believe that is the case here, and you should let go of it.