To be honest I found the beginning of all this in thoroughly bad taste. Remember the we British are fighting in this conflict and several hundred died in the atrocity as did other nationalities. If Americans want the majority of the world to be on their side, particularly the Arab world this not best achieved by continual pictures of flag-waving Americans on TV.. Just think for a while how we all thought when we saw pictures on TV of cheering Palestinians who had just heard about the World Trade Center.... It seems to me that "patiotism" or really being taken over by chauvinism.
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