Well, depends on who you are talking to, and what the goals of that individual person/group really are.  I'm a self-proclaimed nobody, I'll do absolutely nothing, and spectate.  Offer the occasional unfunny jest the way I do.

But what about someone who does count, candidate McCain?  Rumor has it that this crisis actually favors him over Obama so the longer it drags on, the worse it gets, increases his shot of actually getting into the White House.  This is from the same playbook that gave us changing terrorist color codes 4 years ago whenever things were going well for Kerry.  

So how do you Europeans like having your politics screwed with, YOUR CIVILIANS MURDERED, for the sake of US politics?

This should be fun.

They tried to assimilate me. They failed.