I lived oversees for a substantial portion of my childhood, and consider myself a well-traveled cosmopolitan who has no trouble adopting a Canadian or European perspective on world events. And about the piece of furrowed-brow concern trolling I have quote-tweeted, let me just say:
<LOUD, CONTEMPTUOUS FARTING NOISE>
It never ends, and it never changes. The impotent, dimwitted anger that is actually a manifestation of weakness and failure in the cultures that produce it. The patronizing, pseudo-sophisticated tut-tutting from people who presume to instruct us. The poorly concealed demand that the American taxpayer perpetually remain the world's daddy while everyone who benefits from our largesse gets to act out like a spoiled teenager.
I've been listening to this crap for 60 years. And every single exudation of it sounds stupider than the last.