Dick,
The US exam system is widely know world wide as beeing completely corupt. I know many guys who have come throught the US system and almost all went through schools where they simply had copies of all the possible questions, and learnt the answers.
American pilots are not generally well though of internationally as they are percieved as being under-educated and indoctrinated in the unique American system.
Your constant theme is the everything is done beter in the USA.
It isn't.