This is to practor and the Americans in this forum. While I can't speak on everyone's behalf my personal dealings with Americans have always been amicable.

While it's a well-known fact that the bombs currently decimating my country-folk and homeland are American-made I always try to make the distinction between government and people, not just with the US but with all countries.

Americans by-and-large are friendly people. Many of them took me into their homes and made feel welcome and at ease when I was a stranger in a strange land. Nobody is saying Americans shouldn't be proud of their Americanism. Any criticism levelled should be directed at insularism and isolationism and this applies to all, Arabs, Europeans, Americans, Indians, etc.

I just wish Americans would take a greater interest in finding out what's happening in the rest of the world.

My view, anyway.