Originally Posted by CDSmith

Don't get me wrong, when my country (Canada) does something to deserve criticism I'm often the first one to step up and dish it out, and I don't fault anyone in any other country who wants to dish it out either. People are entitled to their opinions.

But the US is in a bit of a unique position, in that much of it's foreign policy actually does affect the rest of the world, thus I find it hard at times to fault non-US citizens from offering up their opinions on certain US-related issues.