Not Yank bashing - more like fact. Seems that they provide 90% of air-power and 100% of blue on blue. Without giving it too much thought I can think of N. Iraq Blackhawk shoot-down,gulf Aegis on Iranian airbus, Kosovo F16 LGB attack on civvie convoy, Kuwai F18 on ground FAC, gulf war A10 on Warror and now this. Can't remember too many other nations having such a track record (not to say there haven't been the occasional 1 or 2 though).
Quite often their attitude can be summed up by the following tale:
Situation: Inbrief to new crews at Op Provide Comfort (Incirlic to Iraq). Welcomes from commanding US general and Brit Detco followed by lengthy capabilities, ROE and tactics briefs by the various AD assets, muds, jammers, AWACS et al. Final player to brief is the US National Guard Wild Weasel Detco who stood up, said:
"You guys go in there and if they light up we're gonna kill them b***ards"
and sat back down again. 10 out of 10 for the John Wayne impression but 0 out of 10 for professionalism. The attitude of most of the US forces (and even though they were great guys, the guard were the worst) was that they were desperate to drop something before they went home. Most of the Brits and French wanted to go home with no dramas thank you very much.