This was billed as the US system. Under the premise of this there is absolutely no scope to fine tune as it would then no longer be the US system and proper consultation would have to take place.
Exactly. The NAS advocates promoted it as "world's best practice".
This is inherently insulting for two reasons:
1. it prohibits any further form of consultation or refinement - how can you possibly fine tune something which is already "the best" and
2. those who are against it, such as most of us here and with very good reason, are guilty of supporting a lesser system.
I've heard this expression used many times before in many different idioms and each time it related to something that failed or was withdrawn shortly after its implementation which always leaves me wondering just who it is that gets to decide what is "world's best"
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