What I'm having trouble with is the America bashing tone that sometimes creeps into the ET discussions has crept in today.

The American health care system is stupid. Everybody in America knows that, and we're struggling to figure out what to do. Fine. So where's the discussion, for example, (on a European blog) about the mile long queue to sign up for a new dental practice in England? How are you going to convince Americans that this is better?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/4367717.stm

Or, off this topic, when Britain and France introduce an Iran-sanctioning proposal at the U.N. there is this mad scramble to explain how it's actually an unbelievably convoluted scheme to undercut the aggressive American Empire. The possibility that the European governments are also worried about Iran is taboo.

It's like "everything about America is bad and everything about Europe is terrific." I prefer to see a discussion about the positive and negative on both sides of the pond, which on most days is how it goes. But not today.