Have just read this thread. I'm astronished at the meretricious claptrap which has been assembled by those sensitive souls whose life has been blighted by the reaction of a few American soldiers to a local tactical success. This seems to illustrate a firm grasp of the inessential.
We're at war,for God's sake. These folk are our allies, facing the same threat and fighting for the same cause and we should be rooting for them - not beefing about their psyche differing from our own.
Jackonicko, you say that you find "some of what you see of Americans as being very foreign." This is a thoroughly patronising observation. What on earth do you expect?
Of course they're foreign and it's one of their strengths. To believe otherwise is to identify yourself with that popular British misconception that Americans are really renegade Englishmen who have somehow gone wrong. The media are doing a splendid job in denigrating the coalition forces. They can manage very well without help from here.