Maybe you should add a "current" to Colman's comment, but otherwise I don't see anything wrong with his comment. I'd be curious to see you defend the Bush administration's international policies in the past few years.

As to my comment on French prisons, it was (probably like yours intended to be)  ironic but (i) i did not defend French actions and (ii) I did not retort with accusations in return, so I refuse the comparison. I just did not see the relevance of the reference to Algeria at this point, apart from the "you did it too" argument.

You were quite specific in accusing us of having extremely simplistic, and anti-American, views, which I find offensive and, quite simply, untrue.

That won't happen, if the focus in many discussions on the Middle East is about highlighting US wrongdoings and "stupidity."

Well, if we keep on being accused of being anti-American, we'll spend disproportionate time justifying our criticism. Try to be around when we discuss Europe without reference to the USA. It happens a lot more than you may think.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes