[Russ]

I think he means it need to be put back in it's place as a country, not unelected rulers of the world.

Oh I'm all for bashing the Yanks. Well, not the people - I don't really know many of them. But I see the country as no more than a world super-bully. America does what America wants and Britian, being the jolly-good sports that we are, allow them where possible and what do we get in return? I'll tell you what we get in return...

Ever seen one of those documentary about the Great White Shark which choses a tiny fish to swim with? The smaller creature nibbles all the parasites off the shark's body, even going in to it's mouth and eating all the bits of leftover food from between the bigger creature's teeth. While this happens, the shark gets a small yet insignificant 'friend' yet owes it no real loyalty - it gives the fish it's protection yet all the GWS needs to do is hiccup and it has swallowed the fish and it's gone forever, only to find a line of similar smaller fish queing up to take their unfortunate predessessor's place.

As I said, I have nothing real against American people - but their country's politics and foreign policy is awful. The US needs to be reminded that it does NOT own the world - it is just ONE (albeit very large) country in a global community of others. The thing is it will never be reminded - any country or continents seen to stand up to America in such away will be seen as a threat (ie the USSR before the cold war ended) and you can be sure that the missles will be launched.

All just my opinion you understand - I don't claim any of this to be concrete fact.