Francis wrote:Oy!
As patting in your own back, I think you can do better.
Have you that much contact with the world outside the United States?
I could absolutely do a better job of patting my country on the back, but in this particular thread I feel it would be insensitive toward people of lesser nations, and only serve to drive them further from accepting the reality of the past 200 years and the foreseeable future being defined by America.