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This seems incongruous on a European blog:
The investigations on Iraq in Britain and Guantánamo torture in Spain seem remote and of little interest right now.
And on this particular European blog we have in fact blogged about the British Iraq inquiries, Spain's Guantanamo investigation, investigations in Germany and Italy, and so on.
But it could be easily fixed:
From the US, The investigations on Iraq in Britain and Guantánamo torture in Spain seem remote and of little interest right now.
or
To Americans, The investigations on Iraq in Britain and Guantánamo torture in Spain seem remote and of little interest right now.
US content is as welcome as any other on ET, but a little effort to adapt for an international audience what is essentially spill-over from the US blogosphere would be appreciated. Not everyone shares the same context and when we write about national European politics we don't assume our audience is familiar with the national context. It doesn't take long paragraphs to establish the context, the following kinds of substitutions would work:
Wikipedia used to have an explicit policy to fight "US-centric" content. Now that focus has been diluted a bit by widening it to Systemic bias. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
